List of display servers explained

This is a list of display servers.

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

Wayland

Display server	Software license	Language	Libraries		Operating systems			Type	Remarks
			Protocol	Other	Linux	BSDs	Other
COSMIC Shell			Smithay	Iced				Modern-style window compositing	Designed for Pop!_OS
			(MIT License)					Modern-style window compositing	Default for the Enlightenment desktop environment
								Modern-style window compositing	Default for KDE
orbment				wlc, ^2				(unknown)	No code contribution since 2016
Lipstick^[1]								Mobile UI manager	Based on QML markup
Mazecompositor								3D compositor	Toy / Demo
Mir								Mobile app-style	Canonical's own embedded device-targeting compositor
				^2				Modern-style window compositing / Mobile app-style	Default for GNOME 4
								Modern-style window compositing	Reference Implementation
Hyprland	^[2]			wlroots,^[3] ^2				Tiling / dynamic	Offers smooth animations, rounded corners and blur
	^[4]			wlroots,^[5] ^2				Tiling / dynamic	i3 replication
Way Cooler	^[6]			wlc, ^2				Tiling / dynamic	Designed to replace AwesomeWM, unmaintained since late 2019
Wayfire	^[7]			wlroots,^[8] ^2				3D compositor	Compiz-inspired
Hikari	^[9]			wlroots,^[10] ^2				Stacking	Targets primarily FreeBSD, Inspired by Calm window manager
River	^[11]			wlroots,^[12] ^2				Tiling / dynamic
labwc	^[13]			wlroots, ^2		^[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 [15]} provides device detection via udev, device handling, input device event processing and abstraction.^[16] also provides a generic X.Org input driver.^[17] support was first merged in Weston 1.5. and is also used by Mutter.

• DirectFB^[18]
• DirectFBGL

Other

• DirectFB
• Quartz Compositor
• SPICE
• SurfaceFlinger

See also

• Display server
• Windowing system

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2023 . Lipstick . 2024-01-10 . Sailfish OS Documentation . . en.
2. Web site: hyprwm/Hyprland. GitHub. 2023-03-23.
3. Web site: hyprwm/Hyprland. GitHub. en. 2023-03-23.
4. Web site: SirCmpwn/sway. GitHub. 2016-11-02.
5. Web site: swaywm/sway. GitHub. en. 2018-10-28.
6. Web site: Immington-Industries/way-cooler. GitHub. 2016-11-17.
7. Web site: WayfireWM/wayfire. GitHub. 2020-12-28.
8. Web site: WayfireWM/wayfire. GitHub. en. 2020-12-28.
9. Web site: raichoo/hikari. darcs hub. 2020-12-28.
10. Web site: raichoo/hikari. darcs hub. en. 2020-12-28.
11. Web site: riverwm/river. GitHub. 2022-01-07.
12. Web site: riverwm/river. GitHub. en. 2022-01-07.
13. Web site: Labwc . . 23 September 2022 .
14. Web site: Labwc « x11-wm - ports - FreeBSD ports tree .
15. Web site: Peter Hutterer - Consolidating the input stacks with libinput . 2014-10-08.
16. Web site: libinput. Freedesktop.org. 2014-05-21.
17. Web site: xf86-input-libinput.
18. Web site: directfb.net. https://web.archive.org/web/20161104003307/http://www.directfb.net/ . dead . 2016-11-04 .