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awesome-wayland

A curated list of Wayland code and resources.
https://github.com/natpen/awesome-wayland

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Brightness Control
- Wlsunset - Day/night gamma adjustments for Wayland compositors supporting wlr-gamma-control-unstable-v1
- brightnessctl
- Gammastep - Day/night gamma modifier that adjusts the color temperature of your screen.
- Clight - Day/night gamma adjustments for Wayland compositors supporting wlr-gamma-control-unstable-v1; automatic screen backlight calibration to match ambient brightness using either webcam or ambient light sensor devices; screen dimming.
- Luminance - A simple GTK application to control brightness of displays including external displays supporting DDC/CI
Browsers without X library dependency
- Firefox - For using Firefox on wayland just add `MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1` to your environment variables
- Librewolf - An independent fork of Firefox, with the primary goals of privacy, security and user freedom
- Tor Browser - Tor Browser Bundle: anonymous browsing using Firefox and Tor
- Falkon - KDE web browser
- Qutebrowser - a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI
- Crusta - Fast, modern and minimal desktop web browser with rich features
- Dooble - The weather bug browser. Minimal, cute, and unusually stable
- Viper Browser - A lightweight browser using QtWebEngine
- Surfer - Simple keyboard based webkit2gtk browser
- wyeb - A vim-like webkit2gtk browser
Compositors
- hikari - A hybrid stacking/tiling Wayland compositor
- Hyprland - Hyprland is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
- Mutter - A window and compositing manager that displays and manages your desktop via OpenGL
- river - A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
- river - A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
- Hyprland - Hyprland is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
- Cagebreak - A Wayland tiling compositor inspired by Ratpoison
- Cardboard - A scrollable tiling Wayland compositor
- dwl - A rewrite of DWM for Wayland
- japokwm - A wlroots based dynamic tiling wayland compositor based around creating layouts
- Kiwmi - A fully programmable Wayland compositor
- KWin - KDE window manager and compositor
- labwc - A stacking Wayland compositor with look and feel of openbox
- newm - A Wayland compositor written with laptops and touchpads in mind
- tinywl+ - A stacking wayland compositor based on tinywl. Great starting place for compositor development.
- Velox - Velox is a simple window manager based on swc, inspired by dwm and xmonad
- Vivarium - A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots, with desktop semantics inspired by xmonad
- Waybox - An openbox clone on Wayland
- Wayfire - 3D Wayland compositor
- Qtile - A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python, [now supports wayland](https://mcol.xyz/2021/08/qtile-a-wayland-compositor.html)
- Weston - Reference compositor for Wayland
Display Configuration
- Kanshi - Dynamic display configuration
- wayout - A Simple tool to set output modes for wlroots compositors implementing zwlr_output_power_management_v1
- wlopm - Wayland output power management tool
- wlr-randr - An xrandr clone for wlroots compositors
- Disman - General screen management software for different compositors based on KScreen
- KScreen - KDE's screen management software
- kscreen-doctor - An xrandr-like utility for Plasma
- nwg-displays - Output management utility for sway Wayland compositor, inspired by wdisplays and wlay.
- wdisplays - GUI display configurator for wlroots compositors
- wlay - Graphical output management for Wayland
- swaymsg - General settings utility for Sway that also manages displays
Email Clients
- Thunderbird - Standalone mail and news reader from mozilla.org
- KMail - Feature-rich email client that supports many protocols
Emulation
- Waydroid - A container-based approach to boot a full Android system on GNU/Linux
Launchers
- LavaLauncher - A simple launcher panel for Wayland desktops
- Wofi - A launcher/menu program for wlroots based Wayland compositors such as sway
- albert - A fast and flexible keyboard launcher
- bemenu - Dynamic menu library and client program inspired by dmenu
- dmenu-wayland - dmenu-wl is an efficient dynamic menu for wayland (wlroots)
- fuzzel - Application launcher for wlroots based Wayland compositors, similar to rofi's `drun` mode
- kickoff - Application launcher with a focus on snappyness
- KRunner - Application launcher for Plasma
- Mauncher - A GTK-based alternative to dmenu for Wayland which supports display scaling
- nwg-launchers - A GTK-based application grid launcher, button bar and dmenu for Wayland
- sirula - Simple app launcher for Wayland written in Rust
- wldash - Wayland dashboard and launcher written in Rust
- yofi - A minimalistic menu for wayland
- rofi - A fork of rofi with Wayland support
- tofi - Tiny dynamic menu for Wayland
PDF Viewers
- zathura - A document viewer
- Okular - KDE Document Viewer
Screencasting
- GNOME ScreenCast - GNOME's default screen recorder embedded in Mutter
- wlrobs - An obs-studio plugin that allows you to screen capture on wlroots based wayland compositors
- wshowkeys - Displays keys being pressed on a Wayland session
- Green Recorder - Screen recorder for GNOME (unmaintained!)
- Kooha - Minimalistic screen recorder for GNOME and Plasma using the xdg-desktop-portal ScreenCast protocol
- OBS Studio - Compositor-independent screen recorder with support for v4l2loopback
- Peek - An animated gif recorder for GNOME
- RecApp - Simple screen recorder for GNOME
- ssr-wlroots - A version of SimpleScreenRecorder with support for `wlroots`-based compositors (more specifically, those that support `wlr-screencopy-v1` and `xdg-output`) - doesn't support recording area selection and has issues with multiple screens
- wayfarer - Screen recorder for GNOME
- wayrec - Experimental screen recorder for Wayland using the freedesktop ScreenCast portal
- wf-recorder - A utility program for screen recording of `wlroots`-based compositors (more specifically, those that support `wlr-screencopy-v1` and `xdg-output`)
- wl-mirror - A simple Wayland output mirror client
- wl-screenrec - High performance wlroots screen recording, featuring hardware encoding
Screenshots
- Shotman - Uncompromising screenshot GUI for Wayland compositors
- Wayshot - A screenshot tool for wlroots compositors implementing zwlr_screencopy_v1.
- Flameshot - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software (requires [grim](https://github.com/emersion/grim) on wlroots)
- Grim - Grab images from a Wayland compositor
- ksnip - ksnip the cross-platform screenshot and annotation tool
- Slurp - Select a region in a Wayland compositor
- Spectacle - GUI application for capturing screenshots
- Swappy - A Wayland-native snapshot editing tool, inspired by Snappy on macOS
- Watershot - A simple wayland native screenshot tool inspired by Flameshot
- Weye - A lightweight screenshot tool for sway users, written in Rust. This tool uses grimshot commands to screenshot
Status Bars
- rootbar - Root Bar is a bar for wlroots based Wayland compositors such as sway
- i3status-rust - Very resource-friendly and feature-rich replacement for i3status, written in pure Rust
- ironbar - A customisable and feature-rich GTK bar for wlroots compositors, written in Rust, supporting content-rich popoups.
- sfwbar - Sway Floating Window Bar is a taskbar for Sway, focused on a stacking layout workflow
- waybar - Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors
- yambar - Modular status panel for X11 and Wayland, inspired by polybar
- eww - Standalone widget system made in Rust that allows you to implement your own, custom widgets in any window manager.
Terminal Emulators
- GNOME Terminal - A terminal emulator for GNOME
- wezterm - A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer
- Xfce Terminal - A graphically-configurable terminal for Xfce
- Alacritty - A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator
- Ate - Awesome terminal emulator
- Foot - A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
- Germinal - Minimalist vte-based terminal emulator
- Havoc - A minimal terminal emulator for Wayland
- Kitty - A cross-platform, fast, feature-full, GPU-based terminal emulator
- Konsole - Terminal emulator by KDE
- Termite - A keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal, aimed at use within a window manager with tiling and/or tabbing support (Termite is obsoleted by Alacritty!)
- wterm - An [st](https://st.suckless.org/) fork for wayland
Tools
- lswt - List Wayland toplevels in both human readable and machine parsable formats
- waylevel - A simple debugging tool which lists compositor specific information.
- wev - A tool for debugging events on a Wayland window, analogous to the X11 tool xev
- wtype - A Wayland tool that allows you to simulate keyboard input like [xdotool](https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool)
- ydotool - A generic Linux command-line automation tool for Wayland
Libraries
- Mir - Mir is set of libraries for building Wayland based shells
- client toolkit - A toolkit for writing Wayland clients in Rust
- Mir - Mir is set of libraries for building Wayland based shells
- smithay - A modular smithy for making Wayland compositors in Rust
- swc - A library for making a simple Wayland compositor
- wld - A primitive drawing library targeted at Wayland
- wlroots - Pluggable, composable, unopinionated modules for building a Wayland compositor
Notifications
- avizo - Simple notification daemon, mainly intended to be used for multimedia keys
- fnott - Keyboard driven and lightweight Wayland notification daemon for wlroots-based compositors
- Mako - A lightweight Wayland notification daemon
- dunst - A highly configurable and lightweight notification daemon
- swaync - A simple notification daemon with a GTK gui for notifications and the control center
- wob - A lightweight overlay volume/backlight/progress/anything bar for Wayland
Clipboard Managers
- copyq - CopyQ is an advanced clipboard manager with editing and scripting features.
- wayclip - Wayland clipboard utility
- wl-clipboard - Command-line copy/paste utilities for Wayland
IM
- Neochat - A Matrix client made with Kirigami
- Ruqola - A Rocket.Chat client made with QtQuick/QML
Image Viewers
- Gwenview - Image viewer by KDE
- imv - A command line image viewer for X11/Wayland
- Koko - Image viewer for desktop and mobile
- LXImage-Qt - Simple and fast image viewer in Qt
- mvi - A command line image viewer utilizing mpv
- oculante
- Pix - Maui's image viewer for desktop and mobile
- Swayimg - Image viewer for Sway/Wayland
- vimiv - An image viewer with vim-like keybindings
Key Binding Management
- keyd - System-wide daemon to remap keys using kernel input primitives (evdev, uinput)
Music Players
- Elisa - A music player that is simple, reliable, and a joy to use
- vvave - Maui's music player for desktop and mobile
On-screen Keyboards
- wf-osk - A very, very basic on-screen keyboard using gtkmm, virtual-keyboard-v1 and layer-shell protocols
Process Managers
- Qps - Qt Process Viewer and Manager
- Qps - Qt Process Viewer and Manager
Screen Locking
- gtklock - GTK-based lockscreen for Wayland
- swayidle - Idle management daemon for Wayland
- swaylock - Screen locker for Wayland
- swaylock-effects - A fork of swaylock with effects such as a blurred screenshot as background or a clock on the lockscreen
- waylock - A simple screenlocker for Wayland compositors
Session Management
- wlogout - A Wayland-based logout menu
Subtitle Editors
- Subtitle Composer - Current git builds include an ffmpeg-based video player fully Wayland native
Text Editors
- FeatherPad - Lightweight and feature rich Qt plain-text editor
- Nota - Maui's simple text editor for desktop and mobile
- KWrite - Simple notepad-like editor based on Kate
Video Players
- Haruna - Video player built with Qt/QML and libmpv
- mpv - Command line video player
Wallpaper
- mpvpaper - A video wallpaper program for wlroots based wayland compositors
- plasma-apply-wallpaperimage - A terminal utility to change wallpaper on Plasma
- swaybg - A wallpaper utility for Wayland compositors
- waypaper - GUI frontend for swaybg/swww to switch wallpapers
- wpaperd - Wallpaper daemon that shows random wallpapers from a directory and changes them after some time
- wbg - Super simple wallpaper application for Wayland compositors
- Wallutils - A set of utilities to manage monitors, resolutions, wallpapers and timed wallpapers
- swww - A Solution to your Wayland Wallpaper Woes

Programming Languages

C 53 C++ 17 Rust 16 Python 8 Vala 3 Go 1 Zig 1 Lua 1

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awesome-wayland

Brightness Control

Browsers without X library dependency

Compositors

Display Configuration

Email Clients

Emulation

Launchers

PDF Viewers

Screencasting

Screenshots

Status Bars

Terminal Emulators

Tools

Libraries

Notifications

Clipboard Managers

IM

Image Viewers

Key Binding Management

Music Players

On-screen Keyboards

Process Managers

Screen Locking

Session Management

Subtitle Editors

Text Editors

Video Players

Wallpaper