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Top 23 C++ Wayland Projects
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Hyprland
Hyprland is an independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
Upstream Hyprland: https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland
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InfluxDB
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- Project mention: Kanata: Cross-platform multi-layer keyboard remapper with advanced customization | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-09
AFAIK https://github.com/houmain/keymapper should support this on MacOS even though it also makes use of the Karabiner virtual device lib (referring to a sibling comment). I suggest giving both a try!
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shell
:shell: Convergent shell for desktops, phones and tables built with QtQuick, Wayland and Material Design (by lirios)
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Discord-Screenshare-Linux
Updating Discord's shit because they won't do it themselves 2: Electric Boogaloo
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sysmenu: Limited, not working out of the box as expected.
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im-emoji-picker
emoji picker compatible with Linux systems using either XServer or Wayland with either Fcitx5 or IBus
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wapanel
Desktop-dedicated wayland bar for wayfire and other wlroots based compositors. Mir compatible.
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interception-vimproved
Unofficial plugin for Interception Tools combining features of caps2esc and space cadet for making held space work as a special fn key. Now configurable!
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SaaSHub
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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
C++ Wayland discussion
C++ Wayland related posts
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Hyprland 0.52.2+ for Fedora — Clean COPR Build
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D-Bus is a disgrace to the Linux desktop
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Let's Unify Linux Desktops
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Hyprland Premium
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Hyprland – Tiling Compositor with the Looks
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Wayland projects in C++? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | Hyprland | 32,684 |
| 2 | Waybar | 10,151 |
| 3 | conky | 8,062 |
| 4 | ksnip | 3,016 |
| 5 | wayfire | 2,860 |
| 6 | sddm | 2,164 |
| 7 | quickshell | 1,658 |
| 8 | hyprpaper | 1,159 |
| 9 | keymapper | 993 |
| 10 | hyprpicker | 992 |
| 11 | Louvre | 662 |
| 12 | hawck | 617 |
| 13 | gBar | 543 |
| 14 | ivi-homescreen | 303 |
| 15 | shell | 242 |
| 16 | Discord-Screenshare-Linux | 217 |
| 17 | swayfire | 176 |
| 18 | sysmenu | 114 |
| 19 | im-emoji-picker | 68 |
| 20 | wapanel | 64 |
| 21 | sane-break | 61 |
| 22 | interception-vimproved | 48 |
| 23 | wl-ambilight | 10 |
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