wlrfx/swayfx

Health v2 · maintenance only

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2343 stars · 116 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

SwayFX is a fork of the Sway Wayland compositor that adds visual effects via a custom GLES2 fx_renderer. It extends the i3-compatible tiling window manager with blur, rounded corners, shadows, dimming, and animations.

Use cases

• add blur and rounded corners to my sway window manager
• i3-compatible wayland compositor with eye candy
• tiling window manager with shadows and animations
• wayland compositor with blur behind waybar
• replace sway with a version that has visual effects
• rounded corners and shadows on linux tiling wm

When to choose

• you want Sway's i3-compatible tiling plus visual effects like blur, shadows, and rounded corners
• you already use Sway and want drop-in enhanced visuals with extra config options
• you want to blur panels and notifications via layer-shell effects

When to avoid

• you want a stock, minimal Sway experience without visual overhead
• you need a compositor outside the Sway/i3 configuration ecosystem
• you use a non-Linux platform, since it targets Linux/Wayland only

Facets

application · maturity active

graphics gui desktop-applications operating-systems graphics c wayland-compositor window-manager tiling-wm i3-compatible gles2 eye-candy blur-effects linux wayland

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