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Phantomat: a zoomable, infinite-canvas window manager for Hyprland

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GITHUB · launched Sep 24, 2026 · 193 upvotes (top 4%) · 2 views

Niche: desktop window managers · 103 launches, 13 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Workflow automation
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • hyprland
  • hyprland-plugin
  • infinite-canvas
  • omarchy
  • wayland

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Could you build this?

No Writing an infinite-canvas window manager for Hyprland demands low-level C++ systems programming and deep knowledge of Wayland compositor protocols.

What it would actually take: Developing this requires writing a native C++ plugin interfacing with Hyprland's compositor APIs and wlroots scene graphs to manage window rendering on an arbitrary 2D canvas. The developer must implement custom view transformations, coordinate projection for input mapping, and zoom-aware damage tracking. This requires specialized Linux graphics stack and Wayland compositor development experience.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 3387 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #153 of 3388 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 329 days after the earliest competitor.

  • SlideScroll · github · 2026-10-22 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.70
  • Tinywm · hn · 2026-10-16 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.68
  • tinywm · github · 2026-10-14 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.68
  • Zumly · hn · 2026-04-03 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • Yashiki · hn · 2026-01-19 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • tatami · github · 2026-11-11 · 82 upvotes · similarity 0.64
  • helicon-focus · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.64
  • Spacelist, a TUI for Aerospace window manager · hn · 2025-12-26 · 45 upvotes · similarity 0.63

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