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Introduction

fht-compositor is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor based on the Smithay compositor library. It has a layout model inspired by popular X11 window managers such as DWM, AwesomeWM and XMonad. Each connected output has 9 workspaces, each workspace managing a bunch of windows.

Windows in the workspace are arranged using a dynamic layout in order to maximized the used area of your screen in two stacks: The master and slave stack. Different parameters can be adjusted at runtime to adapt the different dynamic layouts to your needs.

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If this is your first time with the compositor, please head to the install guide to take the guided tour in order to get up and running with the compositor!

WARNING

fht-compositor is a bare-bones compositor, it does not include a bar, notifications, and other nice-to-have components that a full desktop environment like GNOME or KDE will provide. You are expected to tinker and work your way through error messages and configuration files!


The compositor is still not mature yet, any feedback and reports would be greatly appreciated. If you have something not working right, you can file an new issue or get in touch through the matrix channel!