RedIWM is a Wayland compositor written in Zig (OpenGL ES) that includes everything in one process - no waybar, swaylock, mako, or any of the usual stack needed.

What's built in: - Compositor + shell (with themes) - Notifications - Lock screen - Night light - File manager - Image/PDF viewer (sandboxed) - Terminal tabs (any app gets tabs) - 100 IPC commands - Material design with spring physics - PipeWire integration (including bass/treble boost)

Performance on my hardware vs labwc + Dank Shell (previous daily driver): - RedIWM: 1 process, 192MB, 4.6% CPU - labwc + DMS: 3 processes, 595MB, 14.4% CPU

$ ps aux | grep rediwm alex 4247 4.6% 192MB rediwm ← everything

vs labwc + DMS:

alex labwc 4.4% 146MB alex dms 1.8% 91MB alex qs 8.1% 358MB Total: 14.4% 595MB

GitHub: https://github.com/oxydizer/rediwm/

Happy to answer questions about the architecture or otherwise