sway VS alacritty

Compare sway vs alacritty and see what are their differences.

sway

i3-compatible Wayland compositor (by swaywm)
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sway alacritty
613 352
13,672 52,104
2.3% 2.4%
9.2 9.3
4 days ago 8 days ago
C Rust
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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sway

Posts with mentions or reviews of sway. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.

alacritty

Posts with mentions or reviews of alacritty. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-16.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing sway and alacritty you can also consider the following projects:

Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.

wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor

i3 - A tiling window manager for X11

kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal

river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

wezterm - A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust

Warp - Warp is a modern, Rust-based terminal with AI built in so you and your team can build great software, faster.

awesome-wayland - A curated list of Wayland code and resources.

starship - ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!

bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning

qtile - :cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)

wslg - Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios