A Wayland compositor. We got a little carried away.

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• Stacking, tiling, and scrolling tiling layouts.
• Workspaces and touchpad gestures. Plenty of room for projects you'll definitely finish someday.
• Smooth animations and transitions.
• Blur and customizable glass. Subtlety is available in Settings.
• Light and dark themes. Pick an accent color or borrow one from your wallpaper.
• Settings for layouts, displays, input, shortcuts, and appearance. It's a desktop. You should be able to configure it with a mouse.
• Live shell editing and hot reload.
• Wayland apps, optional X11 support through Xwayland, multiple monitors, screenshots, and screen sharing.

Hyprland and niri users are welcome. We won't tell.

Glass dashboard	Another mood
Launcher, up close	Wuthering Waves, with company

There are easier hobbies than writing a compositor. Unfortunately, we like this one.

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Denial is in public beta. It runs on Linux. Someone got it running on StarryOS's starry-kernel too. Apparently one kernel wasn't enough. Linux builds support x86-64 and ARM64. Configuration and developer interfaces may change before 1.0.

First-party Linux binary packages are currently x86-64. For the distributions below, review the repository setup script, then add the signed repository:

curl -fsSL https://install.denialwm.org | sh

Setup shows its plan and asks for confirmation before using sudo. Once it finishes, install Denial with the command for your distribution:

Alpine Linux 3.24 has signed APK downloads. NixOS has a first-party source flake and module