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Wayland compositor
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A Wayland compositor is a display server that implements the Wayland protocol and serves analogously to how a compositing window manager does for X11.
Available software
| Name | Package | Homepage | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enlightenment | x11-wm/enlightenment | https://www.enlightenment.org/ | A compositing, stacking window manager/Wayland compositor that is over twenty years old. |
| KWin | kde-plasma/kwin | https://userbase.kde.org/KWin | KDE's compositing window manager/Wayland compositor. |
| Mutter | x11-wm/mutter | https://git.gnome.org/browse/mutter/ | GNOME's compositing window manager/Wayland compositor. |
| Sway | dev-libs/sway | http://swaywm.org/ | A lightweight, tiling Wayland compositor that is essentially the Wayland equivalent to i3. |
| Weston | dev-libs/weston | https://github.com/wayland-project/weston | a reference implementation of a Wayland compositor. |