River is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor with a flexible runtime configuration. River can either be run nested in an X11/Wayland session or directly from a tty using KMS/DRM. Simply run the river command. Usually this executable is a shell script invoking riverctl(1) to create mappings, start programs such as a layout generator or status bar, and perform other configuration.
Features
- Simple and predictable behavior, river should be easy to use and have a low cognitive load
- Window management based on a stack of views and tags
- Dynamic layouts generated by external, user-written executables
- A default rivertile layout generator is provided
- Scriptable configuration and control through a custom Wayland protocol and separate riverctl binary implementing it
- Install from your package manager
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GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)Follow river
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