Top 8 C Compositor Projects

sway

183 12,093 7.5 C

i3-compatible Wayland compositor

Project mention: Moving from Plasma, to Sway, some | reddit.com/r/swaywm | 2023-03-25

Arch wiki and Sway wiki should answer most of your questions. Additionally, have a look at other sway configs. You should find plenty of dotfiles on GitHub etc.
picom

41 3,304 6.6 C

A lightweight compositor for X11

Project mention: Linux Mint XFCE4. I felt like having simpler looking rice. More in reply | reddit.com/r/linuxmint | 2023-03-01

• Compositor: Picom - https://github.com/yshui/picom - used it to just get shadow, under rofi.
SonarLint

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dwl

15 1,495 3.3 C

dwm for Wayland

Project mention: Can someone recommend a compositor to me? | reddit.com/r/wayland | 2023-03-14

Have you checked DWL which is DWM for Wayland? I haven't tried it yet so I can't say anything more.
cage

12 702 7.4 C

A Wayland kiosk

Project mention: How to learn writing a Wayland compositor? | reddit.com/r/rust | 2023-03-25

Maybe starting with reimplementing something like this: https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage would be the easiest?
sway-borders

3 224 6.8 C

Fork of sway with some extra features, mainly related to borders.

Project mention: Why didn't i discover this earlier | reddit.com/r/linuxmemes | 2023-02-05

There's a fork called sway-borders that implements rounded corners outside of windows.
cagebreak

2 164 3.3 C

Cagebreak: A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison

Project mention: With rise of wayland, are simpler window managers dying? | reddit.com/r/linux | 2022-08-26

cagebreak as far as i can tell is a one man project (it uses cage to provide a high level abstraction over wlroots).
open-display-transform

2 132 1.7 C

Open Display Transform is a collection of tools and experiments for rendering wide-gamut scene-linear data into an image for an SDR or HDR display device.

Project mention: subtractive saturation effect | reddit.com/r/colorists | 2023-02-04
InfluxDB

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wayward

0 62 0.0 C

Fast desktop shell for wayland and weston.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2023-03-25.