Active Wayland Xwayland Started 2020

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dwl

dwl is a compact, hackable compositor for Wayland based on wlroots.

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Status
Paradigm
Server
Written in
GPU

Overview

About dwl

dwl is a compact, hackable compositor for Wayland based on wlroots. It is intended to fill the same space in the Wayland world that dwm does in X11, primarily in terms of functionality, and secondarily in terms of philosophy. Like dwm, dwl is:

  • Easy to understand, hack on, and extend with patches
  • One C source file (or a very small number) configurable via config.h
  • Tied to as few external dependencies as possible
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Notable features

Suckless-style dwm concepts for Wayland; configuration is compiled into the source and patches extend behavior.

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