List of display servers

This is a list of display servers.

## X11

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* Cygwin/X
* KDrive
* Low Bandwidth X
* MacX
* Mir (display server)
* MKS X/Server
* Multi-Pointer X
* Reflection X
* RISCwindows
* WiredX
* X Window System
* X.Org Server
* X-Win32
* X386
* Xapollo
* XDarwin
* Xephyr
* XFree86
* Xming
* Xmove
* Xnest
* Xnews (X11 server)
* Xpra
* XQuartz
* Xsgi
* Xsun
* Xvfb
* XWinLogon

## Wayland

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Plasma 5.23.4 (December 2021) on Wayland (`kwin_wayland` compositor) under Arch Linux Wayland Display server | Software license | Language | Libraries | Operating systems  | Type  | Remarks

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COSMIC Shell | GPLv3 | Rust | Smithay | Iced | Yes | No | No | Modern-style window compositing | Designed for Pop!_OS
Enlightenment | BSD license | C | libwayland-server
(MIT License) | EFL | Yes | Yes | POSIX | Modern-style window compositing | Default for the Enlightenment desktop environment
KWin | GPL | C++ | Qt 5 | Yes | Yes | POSIX | Modern-style window compositing | Default for KDE
orbment | GPL 3+ | C | wlc, libinput2 | Yes | No | No | (unknown) | No code contribution since 2016
Lipstick[1] |  LGPL 2.1 | C++ | Qt 5 | Yes | No | No | Mobile UI manager | Based on QML markup
Mazecompositor | MIT License | C++ | Qt 5 | Yes | No | No | 3D compositor | Toy / Demo
Mir | GPL | C++ | Qt 5, GTK | Yes | No | No | Mobile app-style | Canonical's own embedded device-targeting compositor
Mutter | GPL | C | libinput2 | Yes | Yes | POSIX | Modern-style window compositing / Mobile app-style | Default for GNOME 4
Weston | MIT License | C | libinput | Yes | Yes | POSIX | Modern-style window compositing | Reference Implementation
Hyprland | BSD license[2] | C++ | aquamarine,[3] libinput2 | Yes | Yes | POSIX | Tiling / dynamic | Offers smooth animations, rounded corners and blur
Sway | MIT License[4] | C | wlroots,[5] libinput2 | Yes | Yes | POSIX | Tiling / dynamic | i3 replication
Way Cooler | MIT License [6] | Rust | wlc, libinput2 | Yes | Yes | POSIX | Tiling / dynamic | Designed to replace AwesomeWM, unmaintained since late 2019
Wayfire | MIT License [7] | C++ | wlroots,[8] libinput2 | Yes | Yes | POSIX | 3D compositor | Compiz-inspired
Hikari | MIT License[9] | C | wlroots,[10] libinput2 | Yes | Yes | POSIX | Stacking | Targets primarily FreeBSD, Inspired by Calm window manager
River | GPLv3 [11] | Zig | wlroots,[12] libinput2 | Yes | Yes | POSIX | Tiling / dynamic |
labwc | GPLv2 [13] | C | wlroots, libinput2 | Yes | Yes[14] | ? | Stacking | Inspired by Openbox

1 A pivotal difference between Android and the other Linux kernel-based operating systems is the C standard library: Android's libbionic is different in that it does not aim to support POSIX to the same extent as the other libraries. With the help of libhybris it is possible to run Android-only software on other Linux kernel based operating systems, as long as this software does not depend on subsystems found only in the Android-forked Linux kernel, such as binder, pmem, ashmem, etc. Whether software programmed for Linux can run on Android, depends entirely on the extent to which libbionic matches the API of the glibc.

2 libinput[15] provides device detection via udev, device handling, input device event processing and abstraction.[16] libinput also provides a generic X.Org input driver.[17] libinput support was first merged in Weston 1.5. and is also used by Mutter.

## Linux framebuffer

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* DirectFB
* DirectFB2
* DirectFBGL

## Other

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* Quartz Compositor
* SPICE
* SurfaceFlinger

## See also

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* Display server
* Windowing system

## References

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1. ^ "Lipstick". Sailfish OS Documentation. Jolla. 2023. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
2. ^ "hyprwm/Hyprland". GitHub. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
3. ^ "hyprwm/aquamarine". GitHub. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
4. ^ "SirCmpwn/sway". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-11-02.
5. ^ "swaywm/sway". GitHub. Retrieved 2018-10-28.
6. ^ "Immington-Industries/way-cooler". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
7. ^ "WayfireWM/wayfire". GitHub. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
8. ^ "WayfireWM/wayfire". GitHub. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
9. ^ "raichoo/hikari". darcs hub. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
10. ^ "raichoo/hikari". darcs hub. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
11. ^ "riverwm/river". GitHub. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
12. ^ "riverwm/river". GitHub. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
13. ^ "Labwc". GitHub. 23 September 2022.
14. ^ "Labwc « x11-wm - ports - FreeBSD ports tree".
15. ^ "Peter Hutterer - Consolidating the input stacks with libinput". 2014-10-08.
16. ^ "libinput". Freedesktop.org. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
17. ^ "xf86-input-libinput".