way-cooler/way-cooler
Wayland compositor for AwesomeWM observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3889
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 2449
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
2140 stars · 75 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Way Cooler is a tiling Wayland compositor that brings the AwesomeWM window manager experience to Wayland, written in Rust and built on wlroots. It is configurable via Lua and extensible through D-Bus, letting users script window rules, theming, and client authentication without touching Rust code.
Use cases
- run a tiling window manager on Wayland
- use AwesomeWM-style configuration on Wayland
- configure a window manager with Lua scripts
- extend a compositor with D-Bus clients like status bars and lock screens
- build a secure Wayland desktop with per-client permissions
When to choose
- you want AwesomeWM-like tiling and Lua configuration on a Wayland desktop
- you want a Rust-based compositor with D-Bus-based extensibility
When to avoid
- you need a maintained, production-ready compositor - the project is abandoned with no release since late 2019
- you want a stable Wayland compositor out of the box - sway or Hyprland are better supported
- you need the master branch - it is explicitly not usable for production
Facets
application · maturity abandoned
gui plugin-system configuration-management desktop-applications operating-systems developer-tools rust lua wayland-compositor tiling-window-manager awesomewm wlroots dbus-extensible linux desktop
5 sources
- readme: https://github.com/way-cooler/way-cooler · fetched 2026-08-28 · 9e1ed186662a
- homepage: http://way-cooler.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · b1150d56a312
- site_page: http://way-cooler.org/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · 19f377c24c4c
- site_page: http://way-cooler.org/docs/d-bus · fetched 2026-08-29 · fdd2a84725e5
- site_page: http://way-cooler.org/docs/lua · fetched 2026-08-29 · 6b993c652879
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| way-cooler/way-cooler | main | 10 |
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