Labwc is a wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for Wayland, inspired by Openbox. It is light-weight and independent with a focus on simply stacking windows well and rendering some window decorations. It takes a no-bling/frills approach and says no to features such as animations. It relies on clients for panels, screenshots, wallpapers and so on to create a full desktop environment. Labwc tries to stay in keeping with wlroots and sway in terms of general approach and coding style. Firstly, we believe that there is a need for a simple Wayland window-stacking compositor that strikes a balance between minimalism and bloat approximately at the level where Window Managers like Openbox reside in the X11 domain. Most of the core developers are accustomed to low-resource Desktop Environments such as Mate/XFCE or standalone Window Managers such as Openbox under X11.

Features

  • Config files (rc.xml, autostart, environment, menu.xml)
  • Theme files and xbm/png/svg icons
  • Basic desktop and client menus
  • HiDPI
  • Optionally xwayland
  • Documentation available

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License

GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

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Operating Systems

Linux, Mac, Windows

Programming Language

C

Related Categories

C Wayland Compositors

Registered

2023-12-11