Top 8 C Compositor Projects

sway

613 13,779 9.2 C

i3-compatible Wayland compositor

Project mention: Sway is an i3-compatible Wayland compositor | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-29

picom

109 3,801 9.5 C

A lightweight compositor for X11

Project mention: Can't find picom and polybar default config files | /r/voidlinux | 2023-07-13

(https://github.com/yshui/picom/blob/next/picom.sample.conf)

WorkOS

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swayfx

12 1,032 7.9 C

SwayFX: Sway, but with eye candy!

Project mention: [ New Package Request ] SwayFX | /r/voidlinux | 2023-06-03

What are the chances of SwayFX being added to the repo ? I see someone had put in a PR but it was never accepted and also the package is now at version 0.3 whereas the person who put in the PR is still at 0.2 since April. Would it be bad practice for me to put in an updated PR that works as I'd be keen to maintain that package for sure ?

cage

49 959 7.6 C

A Wayland kiosk

Project mention: Wayland breaks your bad software | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-30

You... might be able to, kind of, depending on your goal... So the thing is, if all you need is a single screen (or at least, I've not run this multi-monitor) and you're just working around drivers that don't support Xorg, you can just run cage ( https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage ), run xwayland on that, and run your real GUI on that. Of course, then you're skipping all the advantages of wayland except hardware/driver compatibility.
For "real" wayland, sibling comments are correct that you'd need a wayland compositor that reimplemented awesome.

cagebreak

7 244 5.7 C

Cagebreak: A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison

Project mention: Here's what your typical Linux system looked like in 2003. We've come so far. | /r/linux | 2023-06-27

There's also a Wayland WM directly inspired by ratpoison! https://github.com/project-repo/cagebreak

sway-borders

11 224 1.9 C

Fork of sway with some extra features, mainly related to borders.
open-display-transform

4 180 6.3 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: Last post got deleted, but anyone working under Troy Sobotka’s AgX dctl? | /r/colorists | 2023-12-06

I will try OpenDRT on the next project (https://github.com/jedypod/open-display-transform/tree/main/display-transforms/resolve).

InfluxDB

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wayward

3 87 4.6 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).