No Wayland-specific requirements, so you can use your xorg solution of choice to control screen brightness, like brightnessctl, brillo, light, or just directly manipulate /sys/class/backlight.

Wlsunset - Day/night gamma adjustments for Wayland compositors supporting wlr-gamma-control-unstable-v1.

Browsers without X library dependency

QtWebEngine
- Crusta - Fast, modern and minimal desktop web browser with rich features
- Dooble - The weather bug browser. Minimal, cute, and unusually stable
- Falkon - KDE web browser
- Viper Browser - A lightweight browser using QtWebEngine
WebKit2GTK
- Surfer - Simple keyboard based webkit2gtk browser
- wyeb - A vim-like webkit2gtk browser

Clipboard Managers

clipman - A simple clipboard manager for Wayland
wl-clipboard - Command-line copy/paste utilities for Wayland

Compositors

Cagebreak - A Wayland tiling compositor inspired by Ratpoison
Cardboard - A scrollable tiling Wayland compositor
hikari - A hybrid stacking/tiling Wayland compositor
japokwm - A wlroots based dynamic tiling wayland compositor based around creating layouts
KWin - KDE window manager and compositor
labwc - A stacking Wayland compositor with look and feel of openbox
Mutter - A window and compositing manager that displays and manages your desktop via OpenGL.
river - A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
Sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
Taiwins - A modern wayland window manager
Waybox - An openbox clone on Wayland
Wayfire - 3D Wayland compositor
Weston - Reference compositor for Wayland
dwl - A rewrite of DWM for Wayland

Display Configuration

Disman - General screen management software for different compositors based on KScreen
Kanshi - Dynamic display configuration
KScreen - KDE's screen management software
Wallutils - A set of utilities to manage monitors, resolutions, wallpapers and timed wallpapers
wdisplays - GUI display configurator for wlroots compositors
wlay - Graphical output management for Wayland
wlr-randr - An xrandr clone for wlroots compositors

Email Clients

KMail - Feature-rich email client that supports many protocols

IM

Neochat - A Matrix client made with Kirigami
Ruqola - A Rocket.Chat client made with QtQuick/QML

Image Viewers

Gwenview - Image viewer by KDE
imv - A command line image viewer for X11/Wayland
Koko - Image viewer for desktop and mobile
mvi - A command line image viewer utilizing mpv
Pix - Maui's image viewer for desktop and mobile

Launchers

bemenu - Dynamic menu library and client program inspired by dmenu
dmenu-wayland - dmenu-wl is an efficient dynamic menu for wayland (wlroots)
fuzzel - Application launcher for wlroots based Wayland compositors, similar to rofi's drun mode
KRunner - Application launcher for Plasma
LavaLauncher - A simple launcher panel for Wayland desktops
Mauncher - A GTK-based alternative to dmenu for Wayland which supports display scaling
nwg-launchers - A GTK-based application grid launcher, button bar and dmenu for Wayland
sirula - Simple app launcher for Wayland written in Rust
wldash - Wayland dashboard and launcher written in Rust
Wofi - A launcher/menu program for wlroots based Wayland compositors such as sway
yofi - A minimalistic menu for wayland
rofi - A fork of rofi with Wayland support

Libraries

client toolkit - A toolkit for writing Wayland clients in Rust
swc - A library for making a simple Wayland compositor
wlroots - Pluggable, composable, unopinionated modules for building a Wayland compositor
wob - A lightweight overlay volume/backlight/progress/anything bar for Wayland

Music Players

Elisa - A music player that is simple, reliable, and a joy to use
vvave - Maui's music player for desktop and mobile

Notifications

fnott - Keyboard driven and lightweight Wayland notification daemon for wlroots-based compositors
Mako - A lightweight Wayland notification daemon

PDF Viewers

Okular - KDE Document Viewer
zathura - A document viewer

Screen Locking

swayidle - Idle management daemon for Wayland
swaylock - Screen locker for Wayland
swaylock-effects - A fork of swaylock with effects such as a blurred screenshot as background or a clock on the lockscreen
waylock - A simple screenlocker for Wayland compositors

Screencasting

OBS Studio - Software designed for capturing, compositing, encoding, recording, and streaming video content
ssr-wlroots - A version of SimpleScreenRecorder with support for wlroots-based compositors (more specifically, those that support wlr-screencopy-v1 and xdg-output). Doesn't support recording area selection and has issues with multiple screens.
wf-recorder - A utility program for screen recording of wlroots-based compositors (more specifically, those that support wlr-screencopy-v1 and xdg-output)
wlrobs - An obs-studio plugin that allows you to screen capture on wlroots based wayland compositors
wshowkeys - Displays keys being pressed on a Wayland session

Screenshots

Grim - Grab images from a Wayland compositor
Slurp - Select a region in a Wayland compositor
Spectacle - GUI application for capturing screenshots
Swappy - A Wayland-native snapshot editing tool, inspired by Snappy on macOS

Session Management

wlogout - A Wayland-based logout menu

Status Bars

i3status-rust - Very resource-friendly and feature-rich replacement for i3status, written in pure Rust
rootbar - Root Bar is a bar for wlroots based Wayland compositors such as sway
sfwbar - Sway Floating Window Bar is a taskbar for Sway, focused on a stacking layout workflow
waybar - Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors
yambar - Modular status panel for X11 and Wayland, inspired by polybar

Subtitle Editors

Subtitle Composer - Current git builds include an ffmpeg-based video player fully Wayland native

Terminal Emulators

Alacritty - A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator
Ate - Awesome terminal emulator
Foot - A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
Germinal - Minimalist vte-based terminal emulator
GNOME Terminal - A terminal emulator for GNOME
Havoc - A minimal terminal emulator for Wayland
Kitty - A cross-platform, fast, feature-full, GPU-based terminal emulator
Konsole - Terminal emulator by KDE
Termite - A keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal, aimed at use within a window manager with tiling and/or tabbing support
wterm - An st fork for wayland

Text Editors

Kate - Modern text editor built on the KDE Frameworks and Qt
KWrite - Simple notepad-like editor based on Kate
Nota - Maui's simple text editor for desktop and mobile

Tools

wtype - A Wayland tool that allows you to simulate keyboard input like xdotool
ydotool - A generic Linux command-line automation tool for Wayland

Video Players

Haruna - Video player built with Qt/QML and libmpv
mpv - Command line video player

Wallpaper

oguri - A very nice animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland compositors
mpvpaper - A video wallpaper program for wlroots based wayland compositors
plasma-apply-wallpaperimage - A terminal utility to change wallpaper on Plasma
swaybg - A wallpaper utility for Wayland compositors
Wallutils - A set of utilities to manage monitors, resolutions, wallpapers and timed wallpapers

README.md

Awesome Wayland

Table of contents

Brightness Control

Browsers without X library dependency

Clipboard Managers

Compositors

Display Configuration

Email Clients

IM

Image Viewers

Launchers

Libraries

Music Players

Notifications

PDF Viewers

Screen Locking

Screencasting

Screenshots

Session Management

Status Bars

Subtitle Editors

Terminal Emulators

Text Editors

Tools

Video Players

Wallpaper

License