Catacomb - A Wayland Mobile Compositor
February 26, 2026 ยท View on GitHub
About
Catacomb is a Wayland compositor for Linux smartphones. It aims to provide responsive window management without cutting down on useful features.
Screenshots
Configuration
Catacomb is configured through IPC using catacomb msg.
Documentation for available configuration options is available under catacomb msg -h.
For persistent configuration or to launch applications on startup, Catacomb
automatically executes ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/catacomb/initrc.
You can find an example configuration here.
Permissions
To allow Catacomb to listen for orientation changes using iio-sensor-proxy, it
is necessary to grant a Polkit permission.
The rules to grant this permissions to users in the catacomb group can be
found in the rules directory.
Controls
| Open application overview | Minimize everything | Close applications |
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| Double-tap to cycle | Tiling |
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