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Top 23 C++ Wayland Projects
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Hyprland
Hyprland is an independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
While browsing through X, I found the Hyprland project account. This was exactly what I was looking for:
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AppSignal
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Project mention: Ksnip the cross-platform screenshot and annotation tool | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-30
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Project mention: Omarchy 4 Makes the Linux Desktop Feel Like a Product, Finally | dev.to | 2026-09-01
Quattro replaces the federation with a single long-running shell built on Quickshell (a Qt Quick toolkit for building desktop components): bar, launcher, menus, notifications, on-screen displays, control panels, lock screen and polkit agent in one coherent, IPC-scriptable process with a plugin architecture, running in under 300 MB.
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Login manager: SDDM on Wayland
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SaaSHub
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I use https://github.com/houmain/keymapper to achieve the same thing, Meta + W: open or switch through existing Firefox windows, Meta + Z: open or switch through existing Terminal Windows, etc.
It works on Wayland from my understanding, but I'm using X11 as my daily driver.
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Project mention: I built a Wayland window manager you can extend with WebAssembly | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-26
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Project mention: Creating a WebAssembly Plugin System for Window Management in Miracle | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-24
A long, long time ago I implemented virtual outputs in Mir: https://github.com/canonical/mir/pull/3056
I forget if we've added dynamic configuration for them, but I don't see why it wouldn't be a possibility of we had upstream support there :)
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Project mention: Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-07-19
The sum up is pretty good, I didn't know half of the history
About Apollo, someone started a fork of Sunshine to be the equivalent of Apollo (with virtual displays) for linux, it's called Polaris https://github.com/papi-ux/polaris (nb, it's not the apache polaris).
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ivi-homescreen
Flutter Linux C++ embedder for desktop and embedded/automotive displays — Wayland, DRM/KMS, EGL, Vulkan (incl. zero-copy dma-buf), and software backends
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shell
:shell: Convergent shell for desktops, phones and tables built with QtQuick, Wayland and Material Design (by lirios)
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Discord-Screenshare-Linux
Updating Discord's shit because they won't do it themselves 2: Electric Boogaloo
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im-emoji-picker
emoji picker compatible with Linux systems using either XServer or Wayland with either Fcitx5 or IBus
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SaaSHub
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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).
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I built a Wayland window manager you can extend with WebAssembly
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Veracrypt Project Update
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A note from our sponsor - AppSignal
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Wayland projects in C++? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | Hyprland | 38,828 |
| 2 | Waybar | 12,040 |
| 3 | conky | 8,531 |
| 4 | ksnip | 3,359 |
| 5 | quickshell | 3,147 |
| 6 | wayfire | 3,060 |
| 7 | sddm | 2,352 |
| 8 | hyprpaper | 1,352 |
| 9 | keymapper | 1,166 |
| 10 | hyprpicker | 1,140 |
| 11 | miracle-wm | 815 |
| 12 | mir | 791 |
| 13 | Louvre | 691 |
| 14 | hawck | 632 |
| 15 | gBar | 538 |
| 16 | polaris | 406 |
| 17 | ivi-homescreen | 399 |
| 18 | shell | 248 |
| 19 | Discord-Screenshare-Linux | 215 |
| 20 | swayfire | 179 |
| 21 | DeskX | 161 |
| 22 | sysmenu | 120 |
| 23 | im-emoji-picker | 81 |
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