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mahkoh/jay

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Jay

Jay is a Wayland compositor for Linux with an i3-like tiling layout, Vulkan and OpenGL rendering, multi-GPU support, screen sharing, and more.

Features

  • Compositors and Shells - Tiling compositor inspired by i3wm.

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Frequently asked questions

What does mahkoh/jay do?

Jay is a Wayland compositor for Linux with an i3-like tiling layout, Vulkan and OpenGL rendering, multi-GPU support, screen sharing, and more.

What are the main features of mahkoh/jay?

The main features of mahkoh/jay are: Compositors and Shells.

What are some open-source alternatives to mahkoh/jay?

Open-source alternatives to mahkoh/jay include: buffet/kiwmi — A fully programmable Wayland Compositor. cage-kiosk/cage — A Wayland kiosk. creamicec/tiley — English | 简体中文. cudiph/cwcwm — CwC is an extensible Wayland compositor with dynamic window management based on wlroots. Highly influenced by awesome… dawsers/scroll — scroll is a Wayland compositor forked from sway. The main difference is scroll only supports one layout, a scrolling… buddiesofbudgie/magpie — Magpie is a X11 window manager and compositor library.