Miracle-wm is a Wayland compositor built atop of Mir, and its core is a tiling window manager like i3 and sway. It intends to offer more features compared to those, though, gunning more for swayfx. The project, led by Canonical’s Matthew Kosarek, recently released version 0.2.0, which comes with a bunch of improvements.
It supports sway/i3 IPC now, so that it can function in conjunction with Waybar, a very popular tool in the build-it-yourself Wayland window manager space. There’s also a new feature where individual windows can live on top (Z-axis wise) of the tiling grid, where they work pretty much like regular windows. Another handy addition is that the configuration can be automatically reloaded when you change it.
Miracle-wm comes in a snap package, but rpm and deb will arrive in a few days, as well. As the version number suggest, this project is in heavy development.
Eh, if I were to choose a tiling window manager that runs on Wayland, I’d use Hyprway.
*Hyprland
I was just given an old laptop that I intend to use for multimedia on one my TV at home and projector at work. I’m not in a rush, so I am playing with various distros and desktops on it as time allows. I tossed Fedora with KDE on it the other day after Thom mentioning how much he liked it, but it doesn’t seem like a good multimedia set-up even if it is pretty looking. I think I might try Hyprland, not because it will be great for multimedia either, but just to play with something else. I’ll probably end up with my old stand by of a heavily customized XFCE. I do love the diversity of desktops/window managers in the open source world.
Have you tried using i3 thom? It’s the main reason I stay on linux
At last! A tiling window manager for Wayland.
I assume this is a joke as it seems like outside KDE and GNOME, it seems like it is all tiling compositors on Wayland. Hyprland and Sway are the big ones.
While everyone and anyone is free to do whatever they want in their spare time, this really looks a lot like “not invented here” syndrome. I may be biased because I stand orthogonal to the whole concept of “tiling windows management” but I wonder how many niches you can build within a niche.