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dwl vs MangoWCA lightweight Wayland compositor based on dwl with several tiling layouts and animations.- dwl vs river
river separates window management into a replaceable program with a documented protocol, and building it from source needs the Zig toolchain. - dwl vs dwm
dwm is the X11 dynamic tiling window manager dwl imitates, with the same compact code and edit-and-recompile customisation, but it runs on X11 instead of Wayland. - dwl vs Hyprland
Hyprland is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor with animations and extensive keyboard and layout configuration, under a BSD-3-Clause license, instead of a minimal patched C codebase. - dwl vs Wayfire
Wayfire is a wlroots-based Wayland compositor with plugin-driven window management and 3D desktop effects, though releases can be far apart. - dwl vs miracle-wm
miracle-wm is a Mir-based tiling Wayland compositor with i3-style tiling, animations, shader effects and plugin support, packaged as a Snap and Debian package. - dwl vs CagebreakA keyboard-driven tiling Wayland compositor inspired by the Ratpoison window manager.
- dwl vs JayA tiling Wayland compositor for Linux written in Rust, with an i3-like layout.
- dwl vs niri
niri places windows in scrollable columns on an endless strip so opening windows never resizes existing ones, and provides an IPC interface for scripting. - dwl vs Sway
Sway offers an i3-style tiling workflow on Wayland configured through a text file compatible with much of i3's format, instead of recompiling source code. - dwl vs PinnacleA tiling Wayland compositor inspired by AwesomeWM and configured in Lua or Rust.
- dwl vs Qtile
Qtile is a tiling window manager configured in Python with programmable layouts and widgets, and offers both X11 and Wayland back ends. - dwl vs SwayFXA fork of the Sway tiling Wayland compositor that adds visual effects such as blur and rounded corners.
