Show HN: Sonamu – Tree-Based Wayland Compositor
I use computers for everything and constantly have hundreds of tabs open. Existing paradigms limited me to grouping tabs by applications, but I needed to organize by task. With Sonamu, I can put my GitHub page on the browser right next to my terminal instead of my emails. Sonamu is a Wayland compositor that organizes every tab in a tree hierarchy. I can create a branch for each of my coding projects and my courses. Within each branch, I can create sub-branches to further organize sub-tasks like
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points · 2 votes
2026-11-11 20:00:17.870Z
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Repository: mathkimchi/sonamu. Source account: I use computers for everything and constantly have hundreds of tabs open. Existing paradigms limited me to grouping tabs by applications, but I needed to organize by task. With Sonamu, I can put my GitHub page on the browser right next to my terminal instead of my emails. Sonamu is a Wayland compositor that organizes every tab in a tree hierarchy. I can create a branch for each of my coding projects and my courses. Within each branch, I can create sub-branches to further organize sub-tasks like
Observed adoption & comparisons
Source votes: 2 votes (Nov 11, 2026 UTC; cumulative since publication) Recent records to compare: “Show HN: Lettercamp – open-source static blog framework” (Show HN, Nov 11, 2026); “openai/codex-security” (GitHub Trending, Nov 11, 2026). Shared themes are navigation hints; they have not been verified as the same need or independent corroboration.
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