sway

i3-compatible Wayland compositor (by swaywm)

Sway Alternatives

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  1. neovim

    1,431 sway VS neovim

    Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

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  3. barrier

    Open-source KVM software

  4. gamescope

    Discontinued SteamOS session compositing window manager [Moved to: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope] (by Plagman)

  5. archweb

    398 sway VS archweb

    Arch Linux website code

  6. alacritty

    370 sway VS alacritty

    A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

  7. i3

    203 sway VS i3

    A tiling window manager for X11

  8. xdg-desktop-portal

    Desktop integration portal

  9. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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  10. Hyprland

    137 sway VS Hyprland

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

  11. wlroots

    Discontinued A modular Wayland compositor library

  12. arewewaylandyet

    Sources for https://arewewaylandyet.com

  13. Waybar

    93 sway VS Waybar

    Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada:

  14. river

    83 sway VS river

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

  15. wayfire

    77 sway VS wayfire

    A modular and extensible wayland compositor

  16. xdg-desktop-portal-wlr

    xdg-desktop-portal backend for wlroots

  17. ydotool

    64 sway VS ydotool

    Generic command-line automation tool (no X!)

  18. dwl

    46 sway VS dwl

    Discontinued dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg

  19. PaperWM

    43 sway VS PaperWM

    Tiled scrollable window management for GNOME Shell

  20. swappy

    21 sway VS swappy

    A Wayland native snapshot editing tool, inspired by Snappy on macOS

  21. awesome-wayland

    Discontinued A curated list of Wayland code and resources.

  22. SaaSHub

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swaywm/sway is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of sway is C.


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