A curated list of Wayland resources. Please investigate these projects on your own before fully committing to them!
This repository is a hard fork of natpen/awesome-wayland since it was archived on Oct. 17, 2023.
There are no current plans to apply to the project for inclusion.
Note
If you want to contribute, please read this.
Important
The scope of this repository aims to capture applications, libraries, etc. that are designed to support the Wayland ecosystem. This does not include existing applications that have implemented support for Wayland. That list is being maintained at mpsq/arewewaylandyet which is the repository for arewewaylandyet.com.
- SCOPE
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- BARS
- BINDINGS
- BREAK NOTIFIERS
- BRIGHTNESS CONTROL
- CLIPBOARD MANAGERS
- COMPOSITORS
- DISPLAY CONFIGURATION
- EMULATION
- IMAGE VIEWING
- LAUNCHERS
- LIBRARIES
- NOTIFICATIONS
- ON-SCREEN KEYBOARDS
- REFERENCE APPLICATIONS
- SCREEN LOCKING
- SCREENCASTS
- SCREENSHOTS
- SESSION MANAGEMENT
- THEMING
- TOOLS
- WALLPAPER
creek - A dwm-inspired malleable and minimalist status bar for the River compositor
deburr - A dwm-like status bar for wlroots-based Wayland compositors
Eww - A standalone widget system that allows for implementing custom widgets in any window manager
gBar - A status bar written with GTK
Hybridbar - A top panel forked from wingpanel for Wayland compositors implementing the
wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1
protocoli3status-rust - A resource-friendly and feature-rich replacement for i3status
Ironbar - A customizable and feature-rich GTK bar for wlroots-based compositors
levee - A fork of levee designed to be more malleable by allowing arbitrary text rather than built-in modules
levee - A status bar for the river Wayland compositor, providing support for workspace tags, volume, battery capacity, and screen brightness via built-in modules
nwg-panel - A GTK 3-based panel for Wayland compositors
Root Bar - A bar for wlroots-based Wayland compositors such as sway
SFWBar - A flexible taskbar application for Wayland compositors, designed with a stacking layout in mind
Wapanel - A simple panel/status bar/task bar for stacking Wayland-based desktops
Waybar - A highly customizable bar for Sway and wlroots-based compositors
wob - A lightweight overlay volume/backlight/progress/anything bar for wlroots-based Wayland compositors implementing the
wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1
protocolYaGoStatus - A replacement for i3status
yambar - A lightweight and configurable status panel, inspired by polybar
zenway - A sway bar alternative that overlays on top of workspaces
These are language-specific bindings for use with Wayland development.
pywayland - A wrapper to the libwayland library
Ianny - Periodically informs user to take breaks by keeping track of usage patterns
No Wayland-specific requirements, so you can use your Xorg solution of choice to control screen brightness, like brightnessctl, brillo, or just directly manipulate /sys/class/backlight
.
Clight - Day/night gamma adjustments for Wayland compositors supporting
wlr-gamma-control-unstable-v1
; automatic screen backlight calibration to match ambient brightness using either webcam or ambient light sensor devices; screen dimmingGammastep - A day/night gamma modifier that adjusts the color temperature of the screen
Luminance - A simple GTK application to control brightness of displays including external displays supporting DDC/CI
wl-gammactl - A GTK application to set contrast, brightness, and gamma using the
wlr-gamma-control
protocolwlsunset - A day/night gamma adjustments for Wayland compositors supporting
wlr-gamma-control-unstable-v1
andxdg-output-unstable-v1
protocolswluma - A tool for wlroots-based compositors that automatically adjust screen brightness based on screen contents and ambient light
clapboard - A clipboard manager with support for images and saved entries
cliphist - A clipboard history manager for Wayland
clipman - A simple clipboard manager implementing the
wlr-data-control-unstable-v1
protocolwayclip - A Wayland clipboard utility implementing the
wlr-data-control-unstable-v1
protocolwl-clipboard - Command-line copy/paste utilities for Wayland
wlsnarf - A highly scriptable clipboard tool for wlroots-based compositors implementing the
wlr-data-control-unstable-v1
protocol; includes a filesystem-based clipboard manager daemon with persistence
Cagebreak - A Wayland tiling compositor inspired by Ratpoison
dwl - A wlroots-based rewrite of DWM for Wayland
foxwhale - A tiling Wayland compositor based on wlroots
gamescope - A wlroots-based Wayland compositor designed for SteamOS
Greenfield - An HTML5 Wayland compositor that runs directly in the browser
hikari - A hybrid stacking/tiling Wayland compositor based on wlroots
Hopalong - A simple Wayland compositor with a feature set comparable to XFWM
Hyprland - A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks
japokwm - A wlroots-based dynamic tiling Wayland compositor based around creating layouts
kiwmi - A fully programmable Wayland compositor
labwc - A wlroots-based stacking compositor for Wayland, inspired by openbox
LaikaWM - A lightweight compositor for Wayland inspired by IceWM and Fluxbox
Liri Shell - A convergent shell for desktops, phones, and tablets
Magpie v1 - A wlroots-based Wayland compositor designed for the Budgie desktop environment
ย
mahogany - A StumpWM-like Wayland compositor
newm-atha - A Wayland compositor written with laptops and touchpads in mind
niri - A scrollable tiling Wayland compositor
phoc - A wlroots-based Wayland compositor mostly used on mobile phones
river - A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
stagen - An experimental wlroots-based Wayland compositor
SwayFX - Sway, but with eye candy
sway - An i3-compatible Wayland compositor
tinybox - A window manager based on tinywl inspired by Blackbox, Fluxbox, and Openbox
tinywl+ - A stacking Wayland compositor based on tinywl and a great starting place for compositor development
velox - A simple window manager based on swc, inspired by dwm and xmonad
Vivarium - A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots, with desktop semantics inspired by xmonad
volare - A tiling, tabbed Wayland compositor
Waybox - An openbox clone on Wayland
Wayfire - A 3D wlroots-based Wayland compositor inspired by Compiz
Weston - A Wayland compositor designed for correctness, reliability, predictability, and performance
wlmaker - A Wayland compositor inspired by Window Maker
Kanshi - A dynamic display configuration tool for Wayland similar to autorandr, usable on Wayland compositors supporting the
wlr-output-management
protocolnwg-displays - An output management utility for sway and Hyprland, inspired by wdisplays and wlay
Wallutils - A set of utilities to handle monitors, resolutions, wallpapers, and timed wallpapers
wayout - A simple output management tool for wlroots-based compositors implementing
wlr-output-management-unstable-v1
wdisplays - A GUI application for configuring displays in wlroots-based compositors implementing the
wlr-output-management-unstable-v1
protocolwlay - Graphical output management for Wayland
wlr-randr - A utility to manage outputs of wlroots-based Wayland compositors, inspired by xrandr
Waydroid - A container-based approach to boot a full Android system on GNU/Linux
Swayimg - An image viewer for Sway/Wayland
bemenu - A dynamic menu library and client program inspired by dmenu
dmenu-wayland - A wlroots-based dynamic menu for Wayland
fuzzel - An application launcher for wlroots-based Wayland compositors, similar to rofi's
drun
modegmenu - A desktop application launcher
kickoff - A wlroots-based application launcher
LavaLauncher - A simple launcher panel for Wayland desktops
Mauncher - A GTK-based alternative to dmenu for Wayland which supports display scaling
mounch - A simple wofi/rofi launcher configured via YAML
nwg-launchers - A GTK-based application grid launcher, button bar, and dmenu for Sway with a best effort for other Wayland environments
rofi - A fork of rofi with Wayland support
sirula - A simple application launcher for Wayland
tofi - A dynamic menu replacement for dmenu or rofi for wlroots-based Wayland compositors
walker - A GTK-based Wayland-native application runner
waypiedock - A launcher dock, in the shape of a pie, under the mouse
wldash - A dashboard, launcher, or control panel for Wayland, using the
wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1
protocolwmenu - A dynamic menu for Sway and wlroots-based compositors inspired by dmenu
yofi - A minimalistic menu for Wayland-based compositors
client toolkit - A toolkit for writing Wayland clients in Rust
Louvre - A library designed for building Wayland compositors in C++
Mir - A set of libraries for building Wayland-based shells
smithay - A compositor library for Wayland
swc - A small Wayland compositor implemented as a library
wld - A drawing library that targets Wayland
wlroots - Pluggable, composable, and unopinionated modules for building a Wayland compositor
Avizo - A simple notification daemon, mainly intended to be used for multimedia keys
dunst - A highly configurable and lightweight notification daemon
fnott - A keyboard-driven and lightweight notification daemon for wlroots-based Wayland compositors
mako - A lightweight notification daemon for Wayland implementing the
wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1
protocolSwayNotificationCenter - A simple notification daemon with a GTK GUI for notifications and the control center implementing the
wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1
protocol
wf-osk - A very, very basic on-screen keyboard using gtkmm and the
virtual-keyboard-unstable-v1
andwlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1
protocolswshowkeys - Displays keypresses on screen on Wayland compositors supporting the
wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1
protocolwvkbd - An on-screen keyboard for wlroots-based compositors
These are mainly for developers looking for example implementations.
vkwayland - A reference application for Vulkan and Wayland
chayang - A screen dimmer that can be used to implement a grace period before locking the session
gtklock - A GTK-based lockscreen for wlroots-based Wayland compositors using the
wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1
andwlr-input-inhibitor
Wayland protocolsShaderlock - A wlroots-based screenlocker for Wayland utilizing GPU shaders
swayidle - An idle management daemon for Wayland which implements the
ext-idle-notify-v1
protocolswaylock-effects - A fork of swaylock which adds, built-in screenshots, image manipulation, and various other effects like blurring
swaylock - A screen locking utility for Wayland which implements the
ext-idle-notify-v1
protocol protocolwaylock - A small screenlocker for Wayland compositors implementing the
ext-session-lock-v1
protocol
Kooha - Minimalistic screen recorder for Wayland sessions implementing the
org.freedesktop.impl.portal.ScreenCast
protocolssr-wlroots - A fork of SimpleScreenRecorder with support for wlroots-based compositors (more specifically, those that support
wlr-screencopy-unstable-v1
andxdg-output-unstable-v1
) - doesn't support recording area selection and has issues with multiple screenswayfarer - A screen recorder for GNOME/Wayland/PipeWire implementing the
org.freedesktop.impl.portal.ScreenCast
protocolwayrec - A simple screen recorder using the
org.freedesktop.impl.portal.ScreenCast
protocolwf-recorder - A utility program for screen recording of wlroots-based compositors (more specifically, those that support
wlr-screencopy-unstable-v1
andxdg-output-unstable-v1
)wl-mirror - A simple Wayland output mirror client
wlrobs - A plugin for OBS Studio that allows screen capture on wlroots-based Wayland compositors
wl-screenrec - A screen recorder for wlroots-based Wayland compositors leveraging DMA-BUF and the DRM and implementing the
wlr-output-management-unstable-v1
andwlr-screencopy-unstable-v1
protocols
grim - Grab images from a Wayland compositor
samurai-select - A screen selection tool for wlroots-based Wayland compositors implementing
wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1
Satty - A screenshot annotation tool inspired by Swappy and Flameshot
shotman - A screenshot GUI for Wayland compositors implementing
wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1
,wlr-screencopy-unstable-v1
, andsingle-pixel-buffer-v1
protocolsslurp - Select a region in a Wayland compositor and print it to the standard output
swappy - A Wayland-native snapshot editing tool, inspired by Snappy on macOS
Taiga - An animated screenshot program for wlroots-based Wayland compositors
Watershot - A simple Wayland-native screenshot tool inspired by Flameshot
Wayshot - A screenshot tool for wlroots-based compositors implementing
wlr-screencopy-unstable-v1
Weye - A lightweight screenshot tool for sway users
SwayAudioIdleInhibit - Prevents swayidle from sleeping while any application is outputting or receiving audio, implementing the
idle-inhibit-unstable-v1
protocolwlogout - A Wayland-based logout menu
nwg-look - A GTK 3 settings editor designed to work properly in a wlroots-based environment
Door Knocker - A simple tool to check the availability of XDG portals in a running session
hyprpicker - A wlroots-compatible Wayland color picker
lan-mouse - A mouse and keyboard sharing software
lswt - List Wayland toplevels in both human readable and machine parsable formats via the
wlr-foreign-toplevel-management-unstable-v1
protocolscenefx - A drop-in replacement for the wlroots scene-graph API that allows Wayland compositors to render surfaces with eye-candy effects
Waycheck - A simple application that displays all of the Wayland protocols supported and unsupported by the running compositor
waycorner - Hot corners for wlroots-based Wayland compositors implementing the
xdg-output-unstable-v1
protocolwayland-py - A pure Python implementation of a Wayland client
waylevel - A simple debugging tool which prints Wayland toplevels and other compositor specific information
waynergy - An implementation of a synergy client for Wayland compositors
waypipe - A proxy for Wayland clients enabling application forwarding similar to
ssh -X
wayvnc - A VNC server for wlroots-based Wayland compositors
wev - A tool for debugging events on a Wayland window, analogous to the X11 tool
xev
wlcs - A protocol-conformance-verifying test suite usable by Wayland compositor implementors
wl-kbptr - A utility to help move the mouse pointer with the keyboard implementing the
wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1
andwlr-virtual-pointer-unstable-v1
protocolswlopm - A Wayland output power management tool implementing the
wlr-output-power-management-unstable-v1
protocolwlrctl - A command line utility for miscellaneous wlroots-based Wayland extensions, supporting the
wlr-foreign-toplevel-management-unstable-v1
,virtual-keyboard-unstable-v1
, andwlr-virtual-pointer-unstable-v1
protocolswlr-which-key - A keymap manager for wlroots-based Wayland compositors implementing the
wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1
protocolwtw - A simple text widget for wlroots-based Wayland compositors implementing the
wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1
protocolwtype - A Wayland tool that allows keyboard input simulation like
xdotool
xwayland-run - A set of utilities revolving around running
Xwayland
and various Wayland compositors headlessydotool - A generic Linux command-line automation tool
Azote - A GTK 3-based picture browser and background setter supporting all wlroots-based Wayland compositors
glshell - A shader display implementing the
wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1
protocol that can be used to create a simple overlay for a Wayland compositor, a status bar, or a wallpaperHyprpaper - A wallpaper utility with the ability to dynamically change wallpapers supporting all wlroots-based compositors
mpvpaper - A video wallpaper program for wlroots-based Wayland compositors
rwpspread - A multi-monitor wallpaper utility spanning input wallpapers across all monitors, supporting all wlroots-based Wayland compositors and using
wpaperd
as the wallpaper daemonswaybg - A wallpaper utility for Wayland compositors implementing the
wl_output
version 4 andwlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1
protocolsswww - An animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland, controlled at runtime and implementing the
wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1
andxdg-output-unstable-v1
protocolsWallutils - A set of utilities to manage monitors, resolutions, wallpapers and timed wallpapers
Waypaper - A GUI frontend for swaybg/swww to switch wallpapers
wbg - A simple wallpaper application for Wayland compositors implementing the
wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1
protocolwpaperd - A wallpaper daemon that shows random wallpapers from a directory and changes them after some time