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• river vs dwldwl is a minimal dwm-like tiling compositor built on wlroots, customised by editing C source and recompiling instead of choosing a separate window manager.
• river vs HyprlandHyprland builds dynamic tiling and animations into the compositor itself, with extensive keyboard and layout configuration instead of a separate policy program.
• river vs WayfireWayfire is a wlroots-based compositor that handles window management and 3D effects through plugins, though releases can be far apart.
• river vs SwaySway is a complete i3-style tiling Wayland compositor with window management built in, so no separate window manager program is needed.
• river vs labwclabwc is a lightweight Openbox-inspired stacking Wayland compositor, so you get floating windows instead of choosing a separate tiling manager.
• river vs niriniri is a Wayland compositor with its own scrollable column tiling and an IPC interface, rather than delegating window management to another program.
• river vs JayA tiling Wayland compositor for Linux written in Rust, with an i3-like layout.
• river vs miracle-wmmiracle-wm is a Mir-based tiling compositor with i3-style tiling, animations and Rust plugins, packaged as a Snap and Debian package, with a smaller community.
• river vs MangoWCA lightweight Wayland compositor based on dwl with several tiling layouts and animations.
• river vs ScrollFork of the sway Wayland compositor that adds a scrolling, PaperWM-style tiling layout.
• river vs CagebreakA keyboard-driven tiling Wayland compositor inspired by the Ratpoison window manager.
• river vs QtileQtile is a Python-configured tiling window manager offering both X11 and Wayland back ends, with programmable layouts and widgets included.
• river vs PinnacleA tiling Wayland compositor inspired by AwesomeWM and configured in Lua or Rust.