How hard would it be to make my own window manager?

• tinywm

  26 1,437 0.0 C

  The tiniest window manager.

If you want something even smaller, you can try https://github.com/mackstann/tinywm

• wlroots

  107 1,969 9.8 C

  Discontinued A modular Wayland compositor library

  

Using [wlroots](https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots) should get a lot of the dirty work out of the way.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  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.

  

• sowm

  20 894 0.0 C

  An itsy bitsy floating window manager (220~ sloc!).

Or sowm.

• waymonad

  21 828 0.0 Haskell

  A wayland compositor based on ideas from and inspired by xmonad

  

That's what the XMonad fans are using: https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad lets you write your Wayland compositor in Haskell, is analogy to the way XMonad lets you write your X window manager in Haskell.

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