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KWin is indeed usable without the rest of KDE. It can be used as the window manager for XFCE or MATE, for example.

Also, I'm not very educated in this matter, but isn't wlroots a fairly good Wayland compositor? Considering sway is built on it and supports both tiling and stacking, I think that might be worth a look.

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As I understand it, wlroots is more of a library that you can build a Wayland compositor on top of (sway being one example). It's not a compositor in and of itself.

It still might be a good choice for LXQt if they do plan on supporting Wayland, though.

One wlroots possibility would be Wayfire https://wayfire.org/

> It can be used as the window manager for XFCE or MATE, for example.

But that's on X11 then, right?

Yes, although KWin now supports Wayland quite a bit. There's an explanation here: https://community.kde.org/KWin/Wayland#Why_Plasma_needs_Wayl...

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