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• niri vs ScrollFork of the sway Wayland compositor that adds a scrolling, PaperWM-style tiling layout.
• niri vs PaperWMPaperWM offers similar scrollable tiling as a GNOME Shell extension, keeping the GNOME desktop, though extensions can break with new GNOME releases.
• niri vs HyprlandHyprland is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor with animations and extensive layout configuration, where new windows share space instead of scrolling horizontally.
• niri vs SwaySway provides i3-style keyboard-driven tiling on Wayland and supports much of the i3 configuration format, resizing existing windows as new ones open.
• niri vs KarouselA KWin script that adds scrollable, column-based tiling to the KDE Plasma desktop.
• niri vs miracle-wmmiracle-wm is a tiling Wayland compositor built on Mir with i3-style tiling, animations, shader effects and Rust plugin support, but a smaller community.
• niri vs JayA tiling Wayland compositor for Linux written in Rust, with an i3-like layout.
• niri vs riverriver is a Wayland compositor that leaves window management policy to a separate replaceable program, and building it requires the Zig toolchain.
• niri vs dwldwl is a minimal dwm-style dynamic tiling Wayland compositor on wlroots, where customisation usually means editing C source and recompiling.
• niri vs PinnacleA tiling Wayland compositor inspired by AwesomeWM and configured in Lua or Rust.
• niri vs CagebreakA keyboard-driven tiling Wayland compositor inspired by the Ratpoison window manager.
• niri vs SwayFXA fork of the Sway tiling Wayland compositor that adds visual effects such as blur and rounded corners.
• niri vs WayfireWayfire is a wlroots-based Wayland compositor with plugin-driven window management and 3D effects, rather than a fixed scrollable tiling layout.
• niri vs MangoWCA lightweight Wayland compositor based on dwl with several tiling layouts and animations.
• niri vs QtileQtile is a tiling window manager configured in Python with programmable layouts and widgets, offering both X11 and Wayland back ends.
• niri vs labwcA lightweight wlroots-based stacking Wayland compositor inspired by Openbox.