awesome-wayland

A curated list of Wayland resources

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ags
A standalone library for creating GTK-based widgets
animation-speech
A configurable transparent speech animation overlay for Wayland compositors implementing the
Astal
A framework for creating GTK-based widgets for use with Wayland compositors
beanclock
A simple clock overlay for wlroots-based Wayland compositors implementing the
chocobar
A simple status bar for wlroots-based Wayland compositors
creek
A dwm-inspired fork of levee and minimalist status bar for the river-classic compositor designed to be more malleable by allowing arbitrary text rather than built-in modules

Anvilock
A simple screen-locker for Wayland compositors that support the
chayang
A screen dimmer that can be used to implement a grace period before locking the session
cthulock
A Slint-based customizable screen-locker for Wayland compositors implementing the
gtklock
A GTK-based lockscreen for wlroots-based Wayland compositors using the
hypridle
A wlroots-based idle management daemon implementing the
hyprlock
A multi-threaded and GPU-accelerated screen locking utility for wlroots-based Wayland compositors implementing the

Anyrun
A GTK-based Wayland-native launcher, customizable via CSS
basket
A minimal application launcher for Wayland compositors implementing the
bemenu
A dynamic menu library and client program inspired by dmenu
diowapplauncher
A simple application launcher for Wayland compositors implementing the
diowmenu
A simple quick launch menu for wlroots-based Wayland compositors implementing the
dmenu-wayland
A wlroots-based dynamic menu for Wayland

Avizo
A simple notification daemon, mainly intended to be used for multimedia keys
dunst
A highly configurable and lightweight notification daemon
fnott
A keyboard-driven and lightweight notification daemon for wlroots-based Wayland compositors
histui
A themeable notification daemon with TUI and CLI options for Wayland compositors implementing the
luft
A lightweight notification daemon for wlroots-based Wayland compositors implementing the
mako
A lightweight notification daemon for Wayland implementing the

awww
An animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland, controlled at runtime and implementing the
Azote
A GTK 3-based picture browser and background setter supporting all wlroots-based Wayland compositors
beanbag
A lightweight wallpaper application designed for wlroots-based Wayland compositors implementing the
glshell
A shader display implementing the
Hyprpaper
A wallpaper utility with the ability to dynamically change wallpapers supporting all wlroots-based compositors
mpvpaper
A video wallpaper program for wlroots-based Wayland compositors

Cage
A Wayland compositor that runs a single application in maximized mode, particularly suitable for kiosk applications
Cagebreak
A Wayland tiling compositor inspired by Ratpoison
cosmic-comp
A Smithay-based Wayland compositor designed for the COSMIC desktop environment
croissant
A wlroots-based stacking Wayland compositor
CwC
A highly configurable wlroots-based tiling window manager, inspired by AwesomeWM
doors
A Wayland compositor with floating, tiling, and scrolling layouts, inspired by bspwm

client-toolkit
A toolkit for writing Wayland clients in Rust
glace
A GTK-based library that aids in the management of Wayland clients such as docks and desktop widgets
gtk4-layer-shell
A library to create panels and other desktop components for Wayland using GTK 4 and the
gtk-layer-shell
A library to create panels and other desktop components for Wayland using GTK 3 and the
guile-wayland
A library that provides access to the Wayland protocol for applications written in GNU Guile Scheme
layer-shell-qt
A Qt-based library to allow applications to use the

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