Swindle
"It's so bad it's not even funny!" -kantiankant, 2026
Swindle is a fork of dwl that was designed from the start with one goal: to make it feel like the poor man's Hyprland. It has the following:
- NO cool vfx
- nearly NO documentation
- ZERO good original code
- only ONE tiling layout (dwindle)
Fun fact: I actually took some parts of MangoWM (such as the ext-workspaces implementation). hence why the LICENSE.mangowm exists
Dependencies
- libinput
- wayland
- wlroots-0.20 (compiled with the libinput backend)
- xkbcommon
- wayland-protocols (compile-time only)
- pkg-config (compile-time only)
- meson (compile-time only)
- ninja (compile-time only)
Install these (and their -devel versions if your distro has separate
development packages) and run meson setup build followed by doas/sudo ninja -C build install, if you wish to install it (installs to /usr/local/bin/ by default).
Things that are good to have
Known Issues
N/A
Configuration
read example/config.lua. It should give you a basic idea of how configuring swindle works.
note: it's best to copy /etc/swindle/config.lua into XDG_HOME_DIR/.config/swindle/ before you attempt to
start swindle because it (swindle) won't start without it
Checklist
- [ ] separate the trackpad scroll from the mousee scroll
- [x] Add ability to change your keymap
- [ ] Add animations via scenefx when 0.5 drops (in another branch)
- [ ] Add the ability for the compositor to read a custom path for configs
- [ ] Add /etc/swindle/config.lua as a fallback path if $HOME/.config/swindle/config.lua is not found
License
GPL-v3, probably