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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
    • 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)
    • river - A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
    • 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

  • 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
  • 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)
  • Libraries

    • 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
  • Music Players

    • Elisa - A music player that is simple, reliable, and a joy to use
    • vvave - Maui's music player for desktop and mobile
  • Notifications

    • 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
    • avizo - Simple notification daemon, mainly intended to be used for multimedia keys
  • 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