Active Wayland Xwayland Started 2018

Floating, Stacking, Tiling ยท Window Manager / Compositor

hikari

hikari is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.

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Source code
Hikari Screenshot
Status
Active
Type
Window Manager + Compositor
Paradigm
Floating, Stacking, Tiling
Server
Wayland, Xwayland
Written in
C
GPU
Yes

Overview

About hikari

hikari [ja. Light] is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.

Features

  • Minimalistic Look & Feel
  • Stacking/Tiling hybrid view management
  • Configurable tiling capability
  • Modal interface
  • Arbitrary view grouping
  • View marks
  • Keyboard oriented
  • UCL configuration

Protocols

hikari is based on wlroots and has optional support for some of its protocols which are needed for certain programs to run.

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Notable features

Keyboard-centric workflow influenced by cwm,with sheet/group organization and support for Linux and FreeBSD.

Gallery

Screenshots

Hikari Screenshot
Hikari Screenshot
Hikari Screenshot
Hikari Screenshot
Hikari Screenshot

Video