Active Wayland Xwayland Started 2024

Tiling, Floating, Scrolling · Window Manager / Compositor

Mango

A lightweight and feature-rich Wayland compositor based on dwl.

Developed by
Mangowm Screenshot
Status
Server
Written in
GPU

Overview

About Mango

Mango starts where dwl ends. It keeps the lightweight, fast-build philosophy while adding the features that make a compositor actually usable day-to-day — without the bloat.

  • Lightweight & fast — as lean as dwl, builds in seconds, no functionality compromised
  • Excellent xwayland support — run X11 apps without friction(Supports scale without blurring)
  • Tags, not workspaces — each tag maintains its own independent window layout
  • Smooth animations — window open/move/close, tag transitions, layer surfaces
  • Flexible layouts — scroller, master-stack, monocle, dwindle, grid, and more
  • Rich window states — swallow, minimize, maximize, global, overlay, fakefullscreen
  • Window effects — blur, shadow, corner radius, opacity (via scenefx)
  • Excellent input method support — text-input v2/v3
  • Sway-like scratchpad — named scratchpad support included
  • Hycov-style overview — see all windows at a glance
  • IPC — send/receive messages from external programs
  • Hot-reload config — no restart needed for keybinding changes
  • Zero flickering — every frame is correct
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Notable features

dwl foundation expanded with per-tag layouts,scrolling,animations,blur,shadows and IPC while remaining compact.

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