Top 4 C++ Compositor Projects

Hyprland

130 16,578 9.9 C++

Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.

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

I've been wanting to try http://hyprland.org/, but since plasma gets me far enough and provides a working taskbar (wifi, sound, bluetooth, mount, clipboard) and virtual desktops on which I end up opening just firefox and emacs I haven't really given it a chance.

Louvre

3 443 9.2 C++

C++ library for building Wayland compositors. (by CuarzoSoftware)

Project mention: The shiny future of wayland & linux desktop. | /r/linuxmemes | 2023-12-11

🔶 Wayland a minimal and secure display server 🔷Louvre high-performance C++ library designed for building Wayland compositors Phoronix analysis for Louvre i know wlroots exist but i'm excited to try new compositors build by Louvre.

WorkOS

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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
shell

3 231 7.7 C++

:shell: Convergent shell for desktops, phones and tables built with QtQuick, Wayland and Material Design (by lirios)
picom-conf

1 28 6.8 C++

GUI configuration tool for Picom X composite manager

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).