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MangoWC vs dwl
dwl is the dwm-like wlroots compositor MangoWC builds on, smaller and minimal by design, customised by editing source and recompiling, without animations.
MangoWC vs Hyprland
Hyprland offers dynamic tiling with animations and extensive layout configuration under BSD-3-Clause, with a larger community than MangoWC.
MangoWC vs river
river leaves window management to a separate replaceable program, letting you pick your own layout policy, and builds with Zig.
MangoWC vs miracle-wm
miracle-wm is a Mir-based tiling Wayland compositor with i3-style tiling, animations, shader effects and Rust plugin support.
MangoWC vs Pinnacle
Pinnacle is an AwesomeWM-style programmable tiling compositor on Wayland, configured in Lua or Rust.
MangoWC vs niri
niri uses scrollable column tiling on Wayland that never resizes existing windows, with an IPC interface and a large user base.
MangoWC vs Sway
Sway provides i3-style tiling on Wayland under MIT with much of the i3 configuration format, but without built-in animations.
MangoWC vs SwayFX
SwayFX keeps Sway's tiling and adds blur, rounded corners and shadows, with effects adding overhead compared with plain Sway.