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Pinnacle vs Hyprland
Hyprland is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor with animations and extensive configuration under BSD-3-Clause, configured through its own files rather than Lua or Rust code.- Pinnacle vs JayJay provides i3-like tiling on Wayland with Vulkan rendering and configuration in TOML or Rust, and like Pinnacle has a smaller user base than Sway.
- Pinnacle vs Qtile
Qtile moves configuration to Python, with programmable layouts and widgets and both X11 and Wayland back ends under the MIT license. - Pinnacle vs niri
niri swaps programmable tiling for scrollable columns on an endless strip, with an IPC interface for scripting and a large user base. - Pinnacle vs miracle-wm
miracle-wm is a Mir-based tiling Wayland compositor with i3-style tiling, animations and Rust plugins, packaged as a Snap and Debian package. - Pinnacle vs dwldwl gives dwm-style dynamic tiling on wlroots with a small C codebase, where customisation usually means editing source and recompiling instead of Lua or Rust config.
- Pinnacle vs Sway
Sway offers i3-style keyboard tiling on Wayland with much of the i3 configuration format under MIT, replacing AwesomeWM-style programmable layouts with a simpler config file. - Pinnacle vs river
river separates window management into a replaceable program with a documented protocol, so you pick or write your own layout manager, and building needs the Zig toolchain. - Pinnacle vs MangoWCA lightweight Wayland compositor based on dwl with several tiling layouts and animations.
