sway VS weston

Compare sway vs weston and see what are their differences.

sway

i3-compatible Wayland compositor (by swaywm)

weston

Weston is a Wayland compositor designed for correctness, reliability, predictability, and performance (by wayland-project)
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sway weston
619 5
14,944 521
0.5% -
9.2 9.6
13 days ago about 2 years ago
C C
MIT License MIT Expat
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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 2025-01-26.

weston

Posts with mentions or reviews of weston. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-11.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing sway and weston 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.

labwc - A Wayland window-stacking compositor

river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

wayland-protocols - Wayland protocol development (mirror)

wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor

greenfield - HTML5 Wayland compositor :seedling:

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

musca - Musca is a simple window manager for X allowing both tiling and stacking modes.

void-packages - The Void source packages collection

dotfiles - My personal dotfiles

i3 - A tiling window manager for X11

simplewm

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