Window Manager (5)

• Plasma (kde.org) tool
  KDE's Qt-based desktop shell; customisable panels, widgets and the KWin compositor
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• Xfce Desktop Environment (xfce.org) tool
  lightweight GTK desktop for UNIX-like systems, tuned for low resource use; roughly two-year release cadence
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• Hyprland: Dynamic tiling window compositor with the looks (hypr.land) tool
  Wayland compositor with live config reload, plugins, animations and multiple tunable tiling layouts
  Wayland #
• Sway (swaywm.org) tool
  Drop-in i3 replacement on Wayland: existing i3 configs work, keyboard-driven tiling, wlroots-based
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• Wayland (wayland.freedesktop.org) tool
  Display protocol and libwayland IPC; no single server, each desktop ships its own compositor
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