awesome-wayland

Ianny

Periodically informes user to take breaks by keeping track of usage patterns

Day/night gamma modifier that adjusts the color temperature of your screen

Day/night gamma adjustments for Wayland compositors supporting wlr-gamma-control-unstable-v1

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

For using Firefox on wayland just add to your environment variables

An independent fork of Firefox, with the primary goals of privacy, security and user freedom

Tor Browser Bundle: anonymous browsing using Firefox and Tor

Crusta

Fast, modern and minimal desktop web browser with rich features

The weather bug browser. Minimal, cute, and unusually stable

KDE web browser

Viper Browser

A lightweight browser using QtWebEngine

a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI

Surfer

Simple keyboard based webkit2gtk browser

wyeb

A vim-like webkit2gtk browser

CopyQ is an advanced clipboard manager with editing and scripting features

wayclip

Wayland clipboard utility

wl-clipboard

Command-line copy/paste utilities for Wayland

Cagebreak

A Wayland tiling compositor inspired by Ratpoison

A scrollable tiling Wayland compositor

dwl

A rewrite of DWM for Wayland

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

KDE window manager and compositor

labwc

A stacking Wayland compositor with look and feel of openbox

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

Reference compositor for Wayland

Qtile

A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python,

General screen management software for different compositors based on KScreen

Dynamic display configuration

KDE's screen management software

An xrandr-like utility for Plasma

nwg-displays

Output management utility for sway Wayland compositor, inspired by wdisplays and wlay

swaymsg

General settings utility for Sway that also manages displays

Wallutils

A set of utilities to manage monitors, resolutions, wallpapers and timed wallpapers

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

Wayland output power management tool

An xrandr clone for wlroots compositors

Feature-rich email client that supports many protocols

Standalone mail and news reader from mozilla.org

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

A Matrix client made with Kirigami

A Rocket.Chat client made with QtQuick/QML

Image viewer by KDE

imv

A command line image viewer for X11/Wayland

Image viewer for desktop and mobile

LXImage-Qt

Simple and fast image viewer in Qt

mvi

A command line image viewer utilizing mpv

oculante

— A fast, unobstrusive portable image viewer

Maui's image viewer for desktop and mobile

Swayimg

Image viewer for Sway/Wayland

An image viewer with vim-like keybindings

keyd

System-wide daemon to remap keys using kernel input primitives (evdev, uinput)

swhkd

A display protocol-independent hotkey daemon

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)

Application launcher for wlroots based Wayland compositors, similar to rofi's mode

kickoff

Application launcher with a focus on snappyness

Application launcher for Plasma

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

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

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

A music player that is simple, reliable, and a joy to use

Maui's music player for desktop and mobile

avizo

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

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

wf-osk

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

KDE Document Viewer

A document viewer

Qps

Qt Process Viewer and Manager

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

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 -based compositors (more specifically, those that support and ) - doesn't support recording area selection and has issues with multiple screens

wayfarer

Screen recorder for GNOME

Experimental screen recorder for Wayland using the freedesktop ScreenCast portal

wf-recorder

A utility program for screen recording of -based compositors (more specifically, those that support and )

wl-mirror

A simple Wayland output mirror client

wl-screenrec

High performance wlroots screen recording, featuring hardware encoding

An obs-studio plugin that allows you to screen capture on wlroots based wayland compositors

Displays keys being pressed on a Wayland session

Flameshot

Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software (requires on wlroots)

Grim

Grab images from a Wayland compositor

ksnip

ksnip the cross-platform screenshot and annotation tool

Uncompromising screenshot GUI for Wayland compositors

Slurp

Select a region in a Wayland compositor

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

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

wlogout

A Wayland-based logout menu

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

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

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

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

Alacritty

A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator

Ate

Awesome terminal emulator

A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator

Germinal

Minimalist vte-based terminal emulator

A terminal emulator for GNOME

Havoc

A minimal terminal emulator for Wayland

Kitty

A cross-platform, fast, feature-full, GPU-based terminal emulator

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!)

A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer

wterm

An fork for wayland

A graphically-configurable terminal for Xfce

FeatherPad

Lightweight and feature rich Qt plain-text editor

Modern text editor built on the KDE Frameworks and Qt

Simple notepad-like editor based on Kate

Maui's simple text editor for desktop and mobile

List Wayland toplevels in both human readable and machine parsable formats

A simple debugging tool which lists compositor specific information

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

ydotool

A generic Linux command-line automation tool for Wayland

Video player built with Qt/QML and libmpv

mpv

Command line video player

mpvpaper

A video wallpaper program for wlroots based wayland compositors

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

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

Super simple wallpaper application for Wayland compositors