River: A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

• river

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  [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor (by riverwm)

  

• sway

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  i3-compatible Wayland compositor

  

It's an alternative to the X window system:

https://wayland.freedesktop.org/

Appreciate where you're coming from re the detail. It can be hard to know where to draw the line when explaining projects and it depends on the target audience etc.

In this case, I would say it's ok that they don't explain what Wayland is on the project page. Wayland has pretty widespread adoption now and I reckon the vast majority of people that might be interested in projects like tiling window managers for linux will have heard of it (and that has probably been true for quite some time now, Wayland has been around for over a decade).

If you're keen to dig into it more, another popular project in the space is sway https://swaywm.org/.

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• mutter

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  Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter

  

Wayland is a protocol - not an implementation. It tries to minify latency by merging together some of the components X11 had and tries to do this in a slim and faster way.

The implementation of the protocol may differ, but I know for example MUTTER (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter)

This article has nice and not too complex visualisations: https://www.secjuice.com/wayland-vs-xorg/

• labwc

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  A Wayland window-stacking compositor

  

• goomwwm

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  Get out of my way, Window Manager!

I used to love GOOMWWM[1] and used it for the longest time. I miss a lot of things about it, still. It doesn't quite meet your requirements, looks-wise its very minimal and it doesn't have snapping, but I really liked the idea behind it: make a keyboard-centric stacking/floating window manager that gives you enough control that it can be used as if it were a (manual[2]) tiling window manager. It really feels like a tiling window manager and its fantastic!

[1] https://github.com/seanpringle/goomwwm

[2] I personally use sway these days, but I still prefer manual tiling where I move and size windows myself, rather than having the WM try to do it for me, as long as the WM makes it very easy to do, as goomwwm did (and its predecessor, musca: https://github.com/enticeing/musca)

• musca

  3 22 0.0 C

  Musca is a simple window manager for X allowing both tiling and stacking modes.

I used to love GOOMWWM[1] and used it for the longest time. I miss a lot of things about it, still. It doesn't quite meet your requirements, looks-wise its very minimal and it doesn't have snapping, but I really liked the idea behind it: make a keyboard-centric stacking/floating window manager that gives you enough control that it can be used as if it were a (manual[2]) tiling window manager. It really feels like a tiling window manager and its fantastic!

[1] https://github.com/seanpringle/goomwwm

[2] I personally use sway these days, but I still prefer manual tiling where I move and size windows myself, rather than having the WM try to do it for me, as long as the WM makes it very easy to do, as goomwwm did (and its predecessor, musca: https://github.com/enticeing/musca)

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