# way-cooler/way-cooler

Wayland compositor for AwesomeWM

Repository: https://github.com/way-cooler/way-cooler
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/way-cooler
Homepage: http://way-cooler.org
Language: C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: tiling-window, wayland, lua, wayland-compositor
Archived: true
Last push: 2019-12-19T21:57:23+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3889, "days_push": 2449, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2140, forks 75 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:18.322611+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: gui, plugin-system, configuration-management
- domain: desktop-applications, operating-systems, developer-tools
- platform: rust, lua
- tags: wayland-compositor, tiling-window-manager, awesomewm, wlroots, dbus-extensible, linux, desktop

## Member repositories
- way-cooler/way-cooler (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:18.322611+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:51:30.017168+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/way-cooler/way-cooler (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:18.322611+00:00, sha 9e1ed186662a)
  - homepage: http://way-cooler.org (fetched 2026-08-29T10:31:31.949137+00:00, sha b1150d56a312)
  - site_page: http://way-cooler.org/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T10:31:31.958101+00:00, sha 19f377c24c4c)
  - site_page: http://way-cooler.org/docs/d-bus (fetched 2026-08-29T10:31:31.960047+00:00, sha fdd2a84725e5)
  - site_page: http://way-cooler.org/docs/lua (fetched 2026-08-29T10:31:31.961718+00:00, sha 6b993c652879)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.