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wlmaker: Wayland compositor that reproduces Window Maker’s look and feel

What if you want to use Wayland, but prefer Window Maker, which is restricted to legacy X11? Enter wlmaker, or Wayland Maker, a Wayland compositor that reproduces the look and feel of Window Maker. It’s lightweight, very configurable through human-readable configuration files, supports dockable applications, and more.

It’s actually packaged in FreeBSD and a number of Linux distributions, including Ubuntu and Debian (Fedora’s package is outdated), but of course, you can compile it yourself, too.

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