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Uses new Rust 2024

new 1.13.0 May 8, 2026
1.12.0 Mar 16, 2026
1.11.1 Aug 29, 2025
1.11.0 Jul 26, 2025
1.4.0 Jul 7, 2024

#102 in GUI

GPL-3.0-only

7MB
196K SLoC

Jay

crates.io

Jay is a Wayland compositor for Linux with an i3-like tiling layout, Vulkan and OpenGL rendering, multi-GPU support, screen sharing, and more.

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Quick Start

~$ cargo install --locked jay-compositor
~$ jay run

See the Jay Book for detailed installation instructions (including dependencies), configuration, features, and more.

The auto-generated Configuration Spec provides an exhaustive reference of every TOML config option.

License

Jay is free software licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

Community

Community Discord server (unofficial)

Dependencies

~41–57MB
~1M SLoC