Desktop environments

• Wikipedia: List of Wayland display servers

Compositors

(star count 2026-11)

• hyprland
  • GitHub: 40.6k 
• niri
  • Rust
  • GitHub: 29k 
  • Config language: kdl
  • Works with LXQt, XFCE, Dux, Noctalia, COSMIC
  • Reddit
  • Emaki
    • Complete desktop distribution built around Niri
• sway
  • GitHub: 17.5k 
• Umbriel
  • Wayland compositor, based on wlroots
  • C++
  • GitHub: 1.6k 

Desktop shells

• dux

  • Desktop shell for wayland compositors built with Quickshell & GO, optimized for niri, hyprland, sway, MangoWC, labwc, and MiracleWM

  • GitHub: 8.9k 
  • QML, Go
• Cosmic
  • Rust
  • GitHub: 7k 
• No dux-shell package in Manjaro stable, only AUR packages
• Plugins
• Components
  • dcal
  • dux-search

Noctalia

• Website
• C++
• TOML config, hot reload
• Sane ethos, compared to Hyprland or Omarchy i.e.
• Config for different compositors
• GitHub: 11.9k 
• Which is better for multi-monitor setup DUX/DMX or Noctalia
• Plugin catalog

Installation

• The Noctalia Manjaro package lacks ~ 1 month behind the upstream Arch package

• noctalia-greeter

  is only in Manjaro testing + unstable, but there's the noctalia-greeter-git AUR package

sudo pacman -S noctalia
pamac install noctalia-greeter-git

Desktop environments

• gnome