Compositor

Open-source projects categorized as Compositor

Top 19 Compositor Open-Source Projects

  • Hyprland

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

    Project mention: Hyprland Crash Course | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-23

    Hyprland builds using a pinned commit of wlroots instead of a tagged release because wlroots release schedule is too slow for Hyprland's development [0]

    This turns into a problem for maintainers because many distributions refuse to ship non tagged versions of software

    Hyprland used to depend on wlroots-git, but when it made the switch to use specific pinned commits a lot more distributions started to package it [1], but some still refuse to do so such as Debian.

    [0] https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprland/issues/302#issuecomment-1...

    [1] https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_request...

  • sway

    i3-compatible Wayland compositor

    Project mention: Sway is an i3-compatible Wayland compositor | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-29
  • InfluxDB

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  • Graphite

    2D raster & vector editor that melds traditional layers & tools with a modern node-based, non-destructive, procedural workflow.

    Project mention: Canva acquires Affinity, its biggest acquisition, to compete with Adobe | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-26

    There is also Graphite (https://graphite.rs/) which, unlike Gimp, has a modern architecture and very ambitious goals (Blender for 2D basically).

  • picom

    A lightweight compositor for X11

    Project mention: Can't find picom and polybar default config files | /r/voidlinux | 2023-07-13

    (https://github.com/yshui/picom/blob/next/picom.sample.conf)

  • swayfx

    SwayFX: Sway, but with eye candy!

    Project mention: [ New Package Request ] SwayFX | /r/voidlinux | 2023-06-03

    What are the chances of SwayFX being added to the repo ? I see someone had put in a PR but it was never accepted and also the package is now at version 0.3 whereas the person who put in the PR is still at 0.2 since April. Would it be bad practice for me to put in an updated PR that works as I'd be keen to maintain that package for sure ?

  • cage

    A Wayland kiosk

    Project mention: The Linux graphics stack in a nutshell, part 1 | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-19

    That did help me find https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage/wiki initially I'm here there's other going down that path. Thanks

  • dotfiles

    i3 + Plasma: using the i3 window manager on the top of KDE Plasma and other dotfiles, configurations, scripts, workarounds and practises from my Debian Sid machines. (by avivace)

  • WorkOS

    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.

  • GimelStudio

    Non-destructive, node based 2D image editor with an API for custom nodes

  • Louvre

    C++ library for building Wayland compositors. (by CuarzoSoftware)

    Project mention: The shiny future of wayland & linux desktop. | /r/linuxmemes | 2023-12-11

    🔶 Wayland a minimal and secure display server 🔷Louvre high-performance C++ library designed for building Wayland compositors Phoronix analysis for Louvre i know wlroots exist but i'm excited to try new compositors build by Louvre.

  • agg-2.6

    AGG Anti-Grain Geometry Library

    Project mention: Codebases to read | /r/cpp | 2023-12-05

    For example, if you are interested in 2D software rendering, check out antigrain library (https://github.com/ghaerr/agg-2.6) - it uses a lot of templates and interesting patterns that maybe you want to get familiar with, and as a bonus it has nice features that you can understand after few days exploring of that codebase.

  • cagebreak

    Cagebreak: A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison

    Project mention: Here's what your typical Linux system looked like in 2003. We've come so far. | /r/linux | 2023-06-27

    There's also a Wayland WM directly inspired by ratpoison! https://github.com/project-repo/cagebreak

  • shell

    :shell: Convergent shell for desktops, phones and tables built with QtQuick, Wayland and Material Design (by lirios)

  • sway-borders

    Fork of sway with some extra features, mainly related to borders.

  • open-display-transform

    Open Display Transform is a collection of tools and experiments for rendering wide-gamut scene-linear data into an image for an SDR or HDR display device.

    Project mention: Last post got deleted, but anyone working under Troy Sobotka’s AgX dctl? | /r/colorists | 2023-12-06

    I will try OpenDRT on the next project (https://github.com/jedypod/open-display-transform/tree/main/display-transforms/resolve).

  • runa

    wayland compositor toolbox

  • wayward

    Fast desktop shell for wayland and weston.

  • auteur

    Live GStreamer node compositor service, implemented in rust

    Project mention: How to change live video/audio stream properties while streaming to YouTube live, eg. change sound source of same video, add some filters to sound or video, all this while active without restart? | /r/gstreamer | 2023-06-29

    Here is a sample project on Microsof'ts github that allows dynamic pipeline switching https://github.com/microsoft/auteur

  • shot_matcher

    Blender add-on: match colors between images for compositing

  • linux-members

    This is a simple bash script that gets the current Reddit members for Linux Distributions and Desktop interfaces (Desktop Environments, Windown Managers and Compositors).

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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). The latest post mention was on 2024-03-26.

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Compositor projects? This list will help you:

Project Stars
1 Hyprland 15,931
2 sway 13,672
3 Graphite 5,503
4 picom 3,787
5 swayfx 967
6 cage 928
7 dotfiles 781
8 GimelStudio 628
9 Louvre 423
10 agg-2.6 270
11 cagebreak 239
12 shell 230
13 sway-borders 224
14 open-display-transform 173
15 runa 106
16 wayward 86
17 auteur 57
18 shot_matcher 25
19 linux-members 0
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