Tiling, Floating, Scrolling · Window Manager / Compositor
Mango
A lightweight and feature-rich Wayland compositor based on dwl.
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Overview
About Mango
Mango starts where dwl ends. It keeps the lightweight, fast-build philosophy while adding the features that make a compositor actually usable day-to-day — without the bloat.
- Lightweight & fast — as lean as dwl, builds in seconds, no functionality compromised
- Excellent xwayland support — run X11 apps without friction(Supports scale without blurring)
- Tags, not workspaces — each tag maintains its own independent window layout
- Smooth animations — window open/move/close, tag transitions, layer surfaces
- Flexible layouts — scroller, master-stack, monocle, dwindle, grid, and more
- Rich window states — swallow, minimize, maximize, global, overlay, fakefullscreen
- Window effects — blur, shadow, corner radius, opacity (via scenefx)
- Excellent input method support — text-input v2/v3
- Sway-like scratchpad — named scratchpad support included
- Hycov-style overview — see all windows at a glance
- IPC — send/receive messages from external programs
- Hot-reload config — no restart needed for keybinding changes
- Zero flickering — every frame is correct
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Notable features
dwl foundation expanded with per-tag layouts,scrolling,animations,blur,shadows and IPC while remaining compact.
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