Awesome Wayland

A curated list of Wayland code and resources.

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Brightness Control
Browsers Without X Library Dependency
Clipboard Managers
Compositors
Display Configuration
Email Clients
Emulation
IM
Image Viewers
Key Binding Management
Launchers
Libraries
Music Players
Notifications
On-screen Keyboards
PDF Viewers
Screen Locking
Screencasting
Screenshots
Session Management
Status Bars
Subtitle Editors
Terminal Emulators
Text Editors
Tools
Video Players
Wallpaper
License

Brightness Control

No Wayland-specific requirements, so you can use your xorg solution of choice to control screen brightness, like brightnessctl, brillo, light, or just directly manipulate /sys/class/backlight.

Gammastep - Day/night gamma modifier that adjusts the color temperature of your screen.
Wlsunset - Day/night gamma adjustments for Wayland compositors supporting wlr-gamma-control-unstable-v1

Browsers without X library dependency

Firefox and forks
- 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
QtWebEngine
- Crusta - Fast, modern and minimal desktop web browser with rich features
- Dooble - The weather bug browser. Minimal, cute, and unusually stable
- Falkon - KDE web browser
- Viper Browser - A lightweight browser using QtWebEngine
- Qutebrowser - a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI
WebKit2GTK
- Surfer - Simple keyboard based webkit2gtk browser
- wyeb - A vim-like webkit2gtk browser

Clipboard Managers

clipman - A simple clipboard manager for Wayland
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

Compositors

Cagebreak - A Wayland tiling compositor inspired by Ratpoison
Cardboard - A scrollable tiling Wayland compositor
dwl - A rewrite of DWM for Wayland
hikari - A hybrid stacking/tiling Wayland compositor
Hyprland - Hyprland is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
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
Mutter - A window and compositing manager that displays and manages your desktop via OpenGL
newm - A Wayland compositor written with laptops and touchpads in mind
river - A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
Sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
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
Weston - Reference compositor for Wayland
Qtile - A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python, now supports wayland

Display Configuration

Disman - General screen management software for different compositors based on KScreen
Kanshi - Dynamic display configuration
KScreen - KDE's screen management software
kscreen-doctor - An xrandr-like utility for Plasma
swaymsg - General settings utility for Sway that also manages displays
Wallutils - A set of utilities to manage monitors, resolutions, wallpapers and timed wallpapers
wayout - A Simple tool to set output modes for wlroots compositors implementing zwlr_output_power_management_v1
wdisplays - GUI display configurator for wlroots compositors
wlay - Graphical output management for Wayland
wlopm - Wayland output power management tool
wlr-randr - An xrandr clone for wlroots compositors

Email Clients

KMail - Feature-rich email client that supports many protocols
Thunderbird - Standalone mail and news reader from mozilla.org

Emulation

Waydroid - A container-based approach to boot a full Android system on GNU/Linux

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
mvi - A command line image viewer utilizing mpv
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)
swhkd - A display protocol-independent hotkey daemon

Launchers

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
LavaLauncher - A simple launcher panel for Wayland desktops
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
Wofi - A launcher/menu program for wlroots based Wayland compositors such as sway
yofi - A minimalistic menu for wayland
rofi - A fork of rofi with Wayland support
tofi - Tiny dynamic menu for Wayland

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

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

On-screen Keyboards

wf-osk - A very, very basic on-screen keyboard using gtkmm, virtual-keyboard-v1 and layer-shell protocols

PDF Viewers

Okular - KDE Document Viewer
zathura - A document viewer

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

Screencasting

Blue Recorder - Screen recorder for GNOME based on Green Recorder written in Rust
GNOME ScreenCast - GNOME's default screen recorder embedded in Mutter
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)
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

Screenshots

Flameshot - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software (requires grim on wlroots)
Grim - Grab images from a Wayland compositor
ksnip - ksnip the cross-platform screenshot and annotation tool
Shotman - Uncompromising screenshot GUI for Wayland compositors
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
Wayshot - A screenshot tool for wlroots compositors implementing zwlr_screencopy_v1.
Weye - A lightweight screenshot tool for sway users, written in Rust. This tool uses grimshot commands to screenshot

Session Management

wlogout - A Wayland-based logout menu

Status Bars

i3status-rust - Very resource-friendly and feature-rich replacement for i3status, written in pure Rust
rootbar - Root Bar is a bar for wlroots based Wayland compositors such as sway
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

Subtitle Editors

Subtitle Composer - Current git builds include an ffmpeg-based video player fully Wayland native

Terminal Emulators

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
GNOME Terminal - A terminal emulator for GNOME
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!)
wezterm - A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer
wterm - An st fork for wayland
Xfce Terminal - A graphically-configurable terminal for Xfce

Text Editors

Kate - Modern text editor built on the KDE Frameworks and Qt
KWrite - Simple notepad-like editor based on Kate
Nota - Maui's simple text editor for desktop and mobile

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
ydotool - A generic Linux command-line automation tool for Wayland

Video Players

Haruna - Video player built with Qt/QML and libmpv
mpv - Command line video player

Wallpaper

oguri - A very nice animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland compositors
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
swww - A Solution to your Wayland Wallpaper Woes
Wallutils - A set of utilities to manage monitors, resolutions, wallpapers and timed 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

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