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Wayland

Resources:

https://wayland.freedesktop.org/building.html
https://arewewaylandyet.com/
https://github.com/natpen/awesome-wayland
https://github.com/solarkraft/awesome-wlroots
https://github.com/oofdog/awesome-wayland
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/List_of_software_for_Wayland
FreeBSD has a lot of wayland ports

Without Xorg:

Compositors:

hyprland
labwc
sway
weston

Android:

Waydroid: https://waydro.id/

Clipboard:

wayclip: https://sr.ht/~noocsharp/wayclip/
wl-clipboard: https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard

Bars:

sfwbar: https://github.com/LBCrion/sfwbar
Waybar: https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar

Displays:

kanshi: https://sr.ht/~emersion/kanshi/
wdisplays: https://github.com/cyclopsian/wdisplays
wlay: https://github.com/atx/wlay
wlr-randr: https://sr.ht/~emersion/wlr-randr/

Distros:

Fedora: https://fedoraproject.org/spins/sway/
OpenSUSEway: https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:OpenSUSEway

File Manager:

Nemo
Thunar

Font:

JetBrains Nerd Font Mono

Image Viewer:

imv: https://sr.ht/~exec64/imv/
swayimg: https://github.com/artemsen/swayimg

Keyboard Input:

hawck: https://github.com/snyball/hawck
keyd: https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd
showmethekey: https://github.com/AlynxZhou/showmethekey
wev: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/wev
wshowkeys: https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/wshowkeys/
wtype: https://github.com/atx/wtype
wvkbd: https://github.com/jjsullivan5196/wvkbd
ydotool: https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool

Launchers:

albert: https://github.com/albertlauncher/albert
bemenu: https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu
fuzzel: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/fuzzel
LavaLauncher: https://sr.ht/~leon_plickat/LavaLauncher/
rootbar: https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/rootbar
tofi: https://github.com/philj56/tofi
wofi: https://sr.ht/~scoopta/wofi/
wmenu: https://git.sr.ht/~adnano/wmenu

Login Manager:

greetd: https://sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/greetd/
Ly: https://github.com/fairyglade/ly

Notifications:

fnott: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/fnott
mako: https://github.com/emersion/mako

Other:

WayWard: https://github.com/varmd/wayward

Overlay:

wob: https://github.com/francma/wob

Power:

[DEAD] wlogout: https://github.com/ArtsyMacaw/wlogout
wlopm: https://sr.ht/~leon_plickat/wlopm/

Remote:

NoMachine: https://www.nomachine.com/
waynergy: https://github.com/r-c-f/waynergy
wayvnc: https://github.com/any1/wayvnc

Screen Locking (Idle):

swayidle: https://github.com/swaywm/swayidle
swaylock: https://github.com/swaywm/swaylock
swaylock-effects: https://github.com/mortie/swaylock-effects

Screen Recorder:

SimpleScreenRecorder: https://github.com/MaartenBaert/ssr
wf-recorder: https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder
wlrobs: https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wlrobs

Screen Sharing:

xdg-desktop-portal-wlr: https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr

Screenshots:

grim: https://sr.ht/~emersion/grim/
slurp: https://github.com/emersion/slurp

Temperature:

Gammastep: https://gitlab.com/chinstrap/gammastep
Luminance: https://github.com/sidevesh/Luminance
wlsunset: https://sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/wlsunset/

Terminal Emulator:

foot: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot

Video Player:

mpv: https://mpv.io/

Wallpaper:

mpvpaper: https://github.com/GhostNaN/mpvpaper
swaybg: https://github.com/swaywm/swaybg
wbg: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/wbg

Web Browser:

FireFox: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-116-Allow-Wayland-Only

The following require LLVM/Clang:

v4l
librsvg
mesa software renderer
swiftshader
stuff using libllvm: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/llvm-libs/
stuff using clang: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/clang/
stuff using llvm: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/llvm/

Sway

To get screen share working
- check this file from arch etc/sway/config.d/50-systemd-user.conf
- https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Desktop_Portal