Berthly
A desktop front end for Apple's container tool to build images, run containers and VMs, and follow their logs.GetApache-2.0
Cocoa-Way
A Wayland compositor for macOS that shows Linux GUI apps from containers or remote machines in Mac windows.
GPL-3.0 · Downloads from github.com
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Open source
- Source
- GitHub
- J-x-Z
- Verified
- 2026
About Cocoa-Way
Cocoa-Way receives the Wayland display protocol on the Mac and draws Linux applications with Metal, either as a whole desktop in one window or as individual app windows. It can attach to a Linux machine over Waypipe and SSH, or launch saved application profiles through Apple Container, Docker-compatible engines or OrbStack.
Clipboard text and images, audio, keyboard, pointer and gestures are forwarded between both sides, and a companion command-line tool exposes the same controls for scripting. The container runtime is installed separately. GitHub releases provide DMG and ZIP downloads labelled for arm64.
Information
- Source code
- J-x-Z/cocoa-way
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Website
- github.com
- Download
- github.com
- Category
- Developer tools
- Evidence checked
- Tags
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Sources and image credits
- github.com/J-x-Z/cocoa-way
- github.com/J-x-Z/cocoa-way/blob/main/LICENSE
- github.com/J-x-Z/cocoa-way/releases/tag/v2.1.0
- icon.png: J-x-Z and Cocoa-Way contributors. GPL-3.0 repository asset; trademarks retained.
License and artwork notices
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