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Labwc 0.20 Wayland Compositor Released With Numerous New Features

Written by Michael Larabel in Wayland on 25 May 2026 at 08:22 PM EDT. 6 Comments
In addition to the release today of Sway 1.12 for that i3-inspired Wayland compositor, Labwc 0.20 is also out today as another wlroots-based Wayland compositor.

Labwc continues with its focus as a window-stacking Wayland compositor. This lightweight compositor inspired by Openbox continues to leverage the wlroots library to help in the heavy lifting. With labwc 0.20, it's re-based against wlroots 0.20.

Labwc 0.20 introduces a much requested "show-desktop" action, adds initial top-level capture support to screenshot specific windows, and supports menu accelerators/shortcuts. The other big one, similar to the Sway update today, is now having HDR10 support when running with the wlroots Vulkan renderer. HDR10 is one of the most common open standard formats for high dynamic range videos.

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The labwc 0.20 release also adds some new command line options, new configuration options, and other enhancements and bug fixes.

Downloads and more details on the Labwc 0.20 release via GitHub.

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