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• Sway vs miracle-wmmiracle-wm offers i3-style tiling on Wayland built on Mir, adding animations, shader effects and plugin support, with a smaller community than Sway.
• Sway vs HyprlandHyprland is a BSD-3-Clause tiling Wayland compositor with dynamic tiling and animations, using its own extensive configuration rather than the i3 format.
• Sway vs JayA tiling Wayland compositor for Linux written in Rust, with an i3-like layout.
• Sway vs ScrollFork of the sway Wayland compositor that adds a scrolling, PaperWM-style tiling layout.
• Sway vs i3i3 is the X11 tiling manager whose configuration format Sway largely follows, so key bindings carry over, but it runs on X11 rather than Wayland.
• Sway vs ForgeA GNOME Shell extension that adds i3 and sway style tiling window management to the desktop.
• Sway vs niriniri is a Wayland compositor with scrollable tiling, placing windows in columns on a horizontal strip so opening a window does not resize existing ones.
• Sway vs QtileQtile is a tiling window manager configured in Python, with both X11 and Wayland back ends and built-in programmable widgets.
• Sway vs SwayFXA fork of the Sway tiling Wayland compositor that adds visual effects such as blur and rounded corners.
• Sway vs riverriver is a Wayland compositor that leaves window management policy to a separate program, so you pick or build the window manager yourself instead of using i3-style rules.
• Sway vs dwldwl is a minimal dwm-style tiling compositor built on wlroots, where customisation usually means editing C source and recompiling rather than a config file.
• Sway vs CagebreakA keyboard-driven tiling Wayland compositor inspired by the Ratpoison window manager.
• Sway vs PinnacleA tiling Wayland compositor inspired by AwesomeWM and configured in Lua or Rust.
• Sway vs MangoWCA lightweight Wayland compositor based on dwl with several tiling layouts and animations.
• Sway vs WayfireWayfire is a wlroots Wayland compositor with plugin-driven window management and 3D desktop effects rather than keyboard-first i3-style tiling.
• Sway vs spectrwmA small dynamic tiling window manager for X11 that aims to stay out of the way.
• Sway vs xmonadA dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell.
• Sway vs labwcA lightweight wlroots-based stacking Wayland compositor inspired by Openbox.