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title: Workspace Compartmentalization
url: "https://nxos.org/documentation/core-concepts/workspace/compartmentalization/"
updated: "2026-10-25"
category: Workspace Architecture
---

# Workspace Compartmentalization

Nitrux assembles its *workspace* environment from individual Wayland-native components rather than using a traditional monolithic desktop environment like GNOME or KDE Plasma.

### Components

- **Window manager** → Hyprland (tiling Wayland compositor).
- **Session manager** → Nitrux Workspace Session Manager.
- **Status bar** → Valenz.
- **Dock** → Marina.
- **Login manager** → greetd + QMLGreet.
- **Lock screen** → Desklock.
- **Idle daemon** → Hypridle.
- **Wallpaper** → Hyprpaper.
- **Application launcher/Clipboard manager** → Vicinae.
- **Notifications** → Valenz.
- **Session menu** → QMLogout.
- **Display configuration** → Hyprscreend (hyprscreend-cpp).
- **On-screen display** → NudgeOSD.

### Design Choices

This approach provides:

- **Modularity**: Each component handles a single responsibility.
- **Wayland-native**: The workspace is built around Wayland’s modern, compositor-driven display model rather than a legacy global display-server model.
- **Consistency**: The MauiKit Framework provides a unified design language and user interaction model.
- **Performance**: Lightweight components with minimal resource overhead.

### Important Notes

Custom Wayland sessions are technically supported; however, they require user configuration.

X11 sessions are not targeted and remain officially unsupported.