Stacking, Spatial · Desktop / Compositor
Otto
A Wayland desktop that feels like someone cared. Smooth animations, thoughtful gestures, and the kind of details you notice only when they're missing — inspired by familiar macOS interactions, built from scratch in Rust.
Riccardo Canalicchio, contributors
Overview
About Otto
A Wayland desktop that feels like someone cared. Smooth animations, thoughtful gestures, and the kind of details you notice only when they're missing — inspired by familiar macOS interactions, built from scratch in Rust.
Otto is a Wayland compositor and stacking window manager built on LayersEngine, rendered with Skia, with parts of the desktop handed straight to hardware display planes.
Notable features
macOS-inspired animated workspace system with Dock,Exposé-style overview,gestures,and an integrated portal
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