Active - Alpha Wayland Started 2026

Floating · Compositor / Desktop / Shell

Denial

Denial is A Flutter-native Wayland compositor "What something was made for should never dictate what it can become." Flutter was made for application interfaces. Denial runs it inside the compositor, where it owns the desktop scene itself. Denial uses Flutter’s Impeller instead of Skia, taking desktop rendering to the next level.

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Overview

About Denial

Denial is A Flutter-native Wayland compositor

"What something was made for should never dictate what it can become."

Flutter was made for application interfaces. Denial runs it inside the compositor, where it owns the desktop scene itself.

Denial uses Flutter’s Impeller instead of Skia, taking desktop rendering to the next level.

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Notable features

Embeds Flutter as the compositor shell UI,enabling animated Dart widgets while Rust/Smithay owns window management and protocol handling.

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