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by shiryel 1483 days ago
https://swaywm.org/
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Is this common? I’ve not heard of this.
In addition to the other post: In order to be someone who would use this project, you have to be a very specific niche of tech.

Linux user, not Nvidia GPU, interested in custom tiling window managers (i3) AND next generation display protocols (Wayland).

I use this on my Thinkpad T510 but can't even run it on my desktop because of (Nvidia's) hardware incompatibilities.

It's basically i3 where you can mostly just drop in the config, but it works on top of wayland instead.
Other than what the other commenters wrote, there is also a lower level library called wlroots which is used by basically every “niche” wayland server. So if you are not plasma or gnome and want to write a wayland compositor you will more than likely just depend on this library as well.