sway VS barrier

Compare sway vs barrier and see what are their differences.

sway

i3-compatible Wayland compositor (by swaywm)

barrier

Open-source KVM software (by debauchee)
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sway barrier
613 616
13,672 25,896
2.3% 1.8%
9.2 0.0
3 days ago 11 months ago
C C
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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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.

barrier

Posts with mentions or reviews of barrier. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-10.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

i3 - A tiling window manager for X11

wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor

river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

synergy-core - Open source core of Synergy, the cross-platform keyboard and mouse sharing tool (Windows, macOS, Linux)

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

input-leap - Open-source KVM software

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

Waybar - Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada:

hidusbf - USB Mice Overclocking Software (for Windows)