wlroots VS sway

Compare wlroots vs sway and see what are their differences.

wlroots

A modular Wayland compositor library (by swaywm)

sway

i3-compatible Wayland compositor (by swaywm)
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wlroots sway
108 618
1,969 14,906
- 1.2%
9.8 9.2
about 3 years ago 8 days ago
C C
MIT License MIT License
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wlroots

Posts with mentions or reviews of wlroots. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-10-14.

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor

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

wlroots-eglstreams - A modular Wayland compositor library with EGLStreams support

river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

x11docker - Run GUI applications and desktops in docker and podman containers. Focus on security.

libinput-gestures - Actions gestures on your touchpad using libinput

weston - Weston is a Wayland compositor designed for correctness, reliability, predictability, and performance

nvidia-patch - This patch removes restriction on maximum number of simultaneous NVENC video encoding sessions imposed by Nvidia to consumer-grade GPUs.

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

wayvnc - A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors

i3 - A tiling window manager for X11

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