river, a non-monolithic wayland compositor
2026-07-20 05:34 UTC
An important difference between Wayland and X11 is that Wayland by concept combines window manager and compositor. That made it harder to write simple or experimental window managers for Wayland, such as StumpWM or i3.
River is a compositor for Wayland that supports implementing a window manager separately, with an independent window placement paradigm, in an arbitrary language.
Here is the wiki page listing window managers for river:
Replies (3)
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@eta@feddit.org 2026-07-20 07:40
I like the concept and tried it on Arch once but couldn’t really get most window managers to work. The screen was just black and there was no mouse movement. I searched for some tutorials on how to get started but couldn’t find any. Do you have tips on how to get a working basic setup from which you can actually try out all the different WMs?
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@PointyFluff@lemmy.ml 2026-07-21 13:48
Wayland is hit garbage.
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@lengau@midwest.social 2026-07-22 20:08
How does this differ from mir, which is also a Wayland compositor with separate window managers?