xmonad VS Hyprland

Compare xmonad vs Hyprland and see what are their differences.

xmonad

The core of xmonad, a small but functional ICCCM-compliant tiling window manager (by xmonad)

Hyprland

Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks. (by hyprwm)
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xmonad Hyprland
76 129
3,234 15,931
1.1% 12.6%
7.9 9.9
6 days ago 1 day ago
Haskell C++
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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xmonad

Posts with mentions or reviews of xmonad. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-04.

Hyprland

Posts with mentions or reviews of Hyprland. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-23.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing xmonad and Hyprland you can also consider the following projects:

sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor

awesome - awesome window manager

river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor

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

i3 - A tiling window manager for X11

swayfx - SwayFX: Sway, but with eye candy!

eww - ElKowars wacky widgets

herbstluftwm - A manual tiling window manager for X11

dotfiles-2.0 - XMonad™️. Widgets go brr.

awesome-hyprland - Awesome list for Hyprland [maintainer=@yavko]

Arch-Linux-xmonad-setup-guide