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• SwayFX vs SwaySway is the upstream project, keeping the same i3-style tiling and configuration without blur, rounded corners or shadows, so it has less overhead and gets features first.
• SwayFX vs ScrollFork of the sway Wayland compositor that adds a scrolling, PaperWM-style tiling layout.
• SwayFX vs miracle-wmmiracle-wm offers i3-style tiling on Wayland with animations, shader effects and plugins, built on Mir instead of wlroots, with a smaller community than Sway or Hyprland.
• SwayFX vs HyprlandHyprland provides dynamic tiling with built-in animations and extensive configuration under BSD-3-Clause, but uses its own configuration format instead of the i3 and Sway one.
• SwayFX vs niriniri replaces Sway-style tiling with a scrollable column layout where opening windows does not resize existing ones, and offers an IPC interface for scripting and status bars.
• SwayFX vs JayA tiling Wayland compositor for Linux written in Rust, with an i3-like layout.
• SwayFX vs WayfireWayfire is a wlroots-based compositor with plugin-driven window management and 3D effects, but it needs configuration to build a full desktop and releases can be far apart.
• SwayFX vs dwldwl brings dwm-style dynamic tiling to Wayland on wlroots with a small C codebase, but drops visual effects and usually needs source edits and recompiling to customise.
• SwayFX vs CagebreakA keyboard-driven tiling Wayland compositor inspired by the Ratpoison window manager.
• SwayFX vs MangoWCA lightweight Wayland compositor based on dwl with several tiling layouts and animations.