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KWin is indeed usable without the rest of KDE. It can be used as the window manager for XFCE or MATE, for example. Also, I'm not very educated in this matter,
by approxim8ion 5y ago
KWin is indeed usable without the rest of KDE. It can be used as the window manager for XFCE or MATE, for example.
Also, I'm not very educated in this matter, but isn't wlroots a fairly good Wayland compositor? Considering sway is built on it and supports both tiling and stacking, I think that might be worth a look.
- pantalaimon 5y ago> It can be used as the window manager for XFCE or MATE, for example. But that's on X11 then, right?
- approxim8ion 5y agoYes, although KWin now supports Wayland quite a bit. There's an explanation here: https://community.kde.org/KWin/Wayland#Why_Plasma_needs_Wayland.3F https://community.kde.org/KWin/Wayland#Why_Plasma_needs_Wayl...
- yissp 5y agoAs I understand it, wlroots is more of a library that you can build a Wayland compositor on top of (sway being one example). It's not a compositor in and of itself. It still might be a good choice for LXQt if they do plan on supporting Wayland, though.
- abrowne 5y agoOne wlroots possibility would be Wayfire https://wayfire.org/ https://wayfire.org/