sway VS awesome-wayland

Compare sway vs awesome-wayland and see what are their differences.

sway

i3-compatible Wayland compositor (by swaywm)

awesome-wayland

A curated list of Wayland code and resources. (by natpen)
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618 18
14,765 1,144
1.2% -
9.3 7.7
5 days ago about 2 years ago
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MIT License Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal
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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 2024-08-08.

awesome-wayland

Posts with mentions or reviews of awesome-wayland. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-22.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing sway and awesome-wayland you can also consider the following projects:

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

Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code

wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor

bismuth - KDE Plasma add-on, that tiles your windows automatically and lets you manage them via keyboard, similarly to i3, Sway or dwm.

i3 - A tiling window manager for X11

kwin-tiling - Tiling script for kwin

river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

sway-launcher-desktop - TUI Application launcher with Desktop Entry support. Made for SwayWM, but runs anywhere

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

xkeysnail - Yet another keyboard remapping tool for X environment

bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning

ydotool - Generic command-line automation tool (no X!)

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