Mango Wayland Compositor

This project's development is based on dwl.

1. Lightweight & Fast Build

   • Mango is as lightweight as dwl, and can be built completely within a few seconds. Despite this, Mango does not compromise on functionality.

2. Feature Highlights

   • In addition to basic WM functionality, Mango provides:
     • Excellent xwayland support.
     • Base tags not workspaces (supports separate window layouts for each tag)
     • Smooth and customizable complete animations (window open/move/close, tag enter/leave,layer open/close/move)
     • Excellent input method support (text input v2/v3)
     • Flexible window layouts with easy switching (scroller, master-stack, monocle,center-master, etc.)
     • Rich window states (swallow, minimize, maximize, unglobal, global, fakefullscreen, overlay, etc.)
     • Simple yet powerful external configuration(support shortcuts hot-reload)
     • Sway-like scratchpad and named scratchpad
     • Ipc support(get/send message from/to compositor by external program)
     • Hycov-like overview
     • Window effects from scenefx (blur, shadow, corner radius, opacity)
     • Zero flickering - every frame is perfect.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/bb83004a-0563-4b48-ad89-6461a9b78b1f

Mango's Vision

Mango's primary goal is stability: After months of testing and development—and aside from a few lingering GPU compatibility issues—it should now be stable enough. I don't plan on making many breaking changes.

Mango's preference is practicality: I tend to add features that genuinely help with daily workflows—things that make our work more convenient.

Mango won't cater to every user preference: For niche feature requests, I'll take a wait-and-see approach. I'll only consider adding them if they get a significant number of upvotes.

Our discord

mangowm

Supported layouts

• tile
• scroller
• monocle
• grid
• deck
• center_tile
• vertical_tile
• vertical_grid
• vertical_scroller
• tgmix

Installation

Packaging status

Dependencies

• wayland
• wayland-protocols
• libinput
• libdrm
• libxkbcommon
• pixman
• libdisplay-info
• libliftoff
• hwdata
• seatd
• pcre2
• xorg-xwayland
• libxcb

Arch Linux

The package is in the Arch User Repository and is available for manual download here or through a AUR helper like yay:

yay -S mangowm-git

Gentoo Linux

The package is in the community-maintained repository called GURU. First, add GURU repository:

emerge --ask --verbose eselect-repository
eselect repository enable guru
emerge --sync guru

Then, add gui-libs/scenefx and gui-wm/mangowm to the package.accept_keywords.

Finally, install the package:

emerge --ask --verbose gui-wm/mangowm

openSUSE

The package is in the community-maintained repository called obs.

sudo opi in mangowm

Fedora Linux

The package is in the third-party Terra repository. First, add the Terra Repository.

Then, install the package:

dnf install mangowm

Guix System

The package definition is described in the source repository. First, add mangowm channel to channels.scm file:

;; In $HOME/.config/guix/channels.scm
(cons (channel
 (name 'mangowm)
 (url "https://github.com/mangowm/mango.git")
 (branch "main"))
 ... ;; Your other channels
 %default-channels)

Then, run guix pull and after update you can either run guix install mangowm or add it to your configuration via:

(use-modules (mangowm)) ;; Add mangowm module
;; Add mangowm to packages list
(packages (cons*
 mangowm-git
 ... ;; Other packages you specified
 %base-packages))

And then rebuild your system.

Other

git clone -b 0.19.3 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots.git
cd wlroots
meson build -Dprefix=/usr
sudo ninja -C build install
git clone -b 0.4.1 https://github.com/wlrfx/scenefx.git
cd scenefx
meson build -Dprefix=/usr
sudo ninja -C build install
git clone https://github.com/mangowm/mango.git
cd mangowm
meson build -Dprefix=/usr
sudo ninja -C build install

Suggested Tools

Hybrid component

• dms-shell

Independent component

• Application launcher (rofi, bemenu, wmenu, fuzzel)
• Terminal emulator (foot, wezterm, alacritty, kitty, ghostty)
• Status bar (waybar, eww, quickshell, ags), waybar is preferred
• Wallpaper setup (swww, swaybg)
• Notification daemon (swaync, dunst,mako)
• Desktop portal (xdg-desktop-portal, xdg-desktop-portal-wlr, xdg-desktop-portal-gtk)
• Clipboard (wl-clipboard, wl-clip-persist, cliphist)
• Gamma control/night light (wlsunset, gammastep)
• Miscellaneous (xfce-polkit, wlogout)

Some Common Default Keybindings

• alt+return: open foot terminal
• alt+space: open rofi launcher
• alt+q: kill client
• alt+left/right/up/down: focus direction
• super+m: quit mango

My Dotfiles

Daily

• Dependencies

yay -S rofi foot xdg-desktop-portal-wlr swaybg waybar wl-clip-persist cliphist wl-clipboard wlsunset xfce-polkit swaync pamixer wlr-dpms sway-audio-idle-inhibit-git swayidle dimland-git brightnessctl swayosd wlr-randr grim slurp satty swaylock-effects-git wlogout sox

Dms

• Dependencies

yay -S foot xdg-desktop-portal-wlr swaybg wl-clip-persist cliphist wl-clipboard sway-audio-idle-inhibit-git brightnessctl grim slurp satty matugen-bin dms-shell-git

• use my dms config

git clone -b dms https://github.com/DreamMaoMao/mango-config.git ~/.config/mango

• use my daily config

git clone https://github.com/DreamMaoMao/mango-config.git ~/.config/mango

Config Documentation

Refer to the repo wiki wiki

or the website docs docs

NixOS + Home-manager

The repo contains a flake that provides a NixOS module and a home-manager module for mango. Use the NixOS module to install mango with other necessary components of a working Wayland environment. Use the home-manager module to declare configuration and autostart for mango.

Here's an example of using the modules in a flake:

{
 inputs = {
 nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
 home-manager = {
 url = "github:nix-community/home-manager";
 inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
 };
 flake-parts.url = "github:hercules-ci/flake-parts";
 mango = {
 url = "github:mangowm/mango";
 inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
 };
 };
 outputs =
 inputs@{ self, flake-parts, ... }:
 flake-parts.lib.mkFlake { inherit inputs; } {
 debug = true;
 systems = [ "x86_64-linux" ];
 flake = {
 nixosConfigurations = {
 hostname = inputs.nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
 system = "x86_64-linux";
 modules = [
 inputs.home-manager.nixosModules.home-manager
 # Add mango nixos module
 inputs.mango.nixosModules.mango
 {
 programs.mango.enable = true;
 }
 {
 home-manager = {
 useGlobalPkgs = true;
 useUserPackages = true;
 backupFileExtension = "backup";
 users."username".imports =
 [
 (
 { ... }:
 {
 wayland.windowManager.mango = {
 enable = true;
 settings = ''
 # see config.conf
 '';
 autostart_sh = ''
 # see autostart.sh
 # Note: here no need to add shebang
 '';
 };
 }
 )
 ]
 ++ [
 # Add mango hm module
 inputs.mango.hmModules.mango
 ];
 };
 }
 ];
 };
 };
 };
 };
}

Packaging mango

To package mango for other distributions, you can check the reference setup for:

• nix
• arch.
• gentoo

You might need to package scenefx for your distribution, check availability here.

If you encounter build errors when packaging mango, feel free to create an issue and ask a question, but Read The Friendly Manual on packaging software in your distribution first.

Thanks to These Reference Repositories

• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots - Implementation of Wayland protocol

• https://github.com/dqrk0jeste/owl - Basal window animation

• https://codeberg.org/dwl/dwl - Basal dwl feature

• https://github.com/swaywm/sway - Sample of Wayland protocol

• https://github.com/wlrfx/scenefx - Make it simple to add window effect.

Sponsor

At present, I can only accept sponsorship through an encrypted connection. If you find this project helpful to you, you can offer sponsorship in the following ways.

Thanks to the following friends for their sponsorship of this project

@tonybanters