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Wayland Compositor

Lightweight, Feature-Rich

MangoWC is a lightweight, high-performance Wayland compositor built on dwl, designed for speed, flexibility, and a modern, customizable desktop experience.

Powerful Features

In addition to basic WM functionality, MangoWC provides excellent xwayland support, base tags, smooth animations, rich window states

Why MangoWC

In addition to basic WM functionality, MangoWC provides excellent features

Lightweight & Fast

MangoWC is as lightweight as dwl, and can be built completely within a few seconds. Despite this, MangoWC does not compromise on functionality.

Multiple Layouts

Flexible window layouts with easy switching (scroller, master-stack, monocle, center-master, etc.)

Smooth Animations

Smooth and customizable complete animations (window open/move/close, tag enter/leave, layer open/close/move)

Excellent XWayland

Excellent xwayland support.

Rich Window States

Rich window states (swallow, minimize, maximize, unglobal, global, fakefullscreen, overlay, etc.)

IPC Support

Ipc support (get/send message from/to compositor by external program)