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Top 3 C++ wayland-compositor Projects
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Hyprland
Hyprland is an independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
Ghostty turned on Discussions and made it the first place for users to go report bugs, make feature requests, etc., then promotes those to issues once it's detailed enough for the maintainers to accept: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/3558
Later, Hyprland followed suit: https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/issues/9854
I'm sure there are other projects doing the same, but those are the two I know about off the top of my head.
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Project mention: VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-24
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
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Index
What are some of the best open-source wayland-compositor projects in C++? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | Hyprland | 36,338 |
| 2 | wayfire | 2,999 |
| 3 | wayland-server | 20 |
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