Pluggable Wayland Window Manager SDK and Marketplace
P5/10March 15, 2026
WhatA developer platform and library that lets anyone write custom Wayland window managers without building a full compositor, with a marketplace for sharing and installing community-built WM configurations.
SignalThe separation of compositor and window manager in Wayland is a breakthrough that dramatically lowers the barrier to building custom desktop experiences, but the ecosystem tooling and distribution around this is nonexistent.
Why NowRiver's new protocol for separating WM from compositor is just emerging, and Wayland adoption is finally hitting mainstream Linux distros, creating a greenfield moment for tooling.
MarketLinux power users and developers (~30M), enterprise Linux desktop deployments; competes loosely with wlroots/Smithay but no one owns the distribution layer
MoatCommunity network effects — a marketplace of WM configs and plugins becomes more valuable as more users contribute and consume
Separating the Wayland compositor and window managerView discussion ↗ · Article ↗ · 321 pts · March 15, 2026
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