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  1. Ratpoison icon
     6 likes

    Ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no rodent dependence. The screen can be split into non-overlapping frames. All windows are kept maximized inside their frames to take full advantage of your...

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    • Linux
    • X11
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    69 alternatives
  2.  1 like

    Twin is a windowing environment with mouse support, window manager, terminal emulator and networked clients, all inside a text display.

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    • Linux
    10 alternatives
  3. Plumb icon
     5 likes

    Plumb is designed to reduce the time spent manually moving windows on your desktop. With higher resolution and larger monitors becoming the norm it’s common to have several applications open at any given time — none of which really need 100% of the screen.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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    46 alternatives
  4. xfwm4 icon
     1 like

    Xfwm4 is the window manager for Xfce. Xfwm4 can be run stand-alone, but if used this way, the Xfce Settings Manager will be required as a GUI to make configuration changes.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    6 alternatives
  5. doWM icon
     1 like

    doWM is a beautiful floating and tiling window manager for X11 completely written in golang.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • X11
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    54 alternatives
  6. WindowSpace icon
     12 likes

    WindowSpace is a powerful desktop enhancement utility for large monitors, widescreens and multi-monitor systems. Once installed, it allows you to manipulate windows in many new amazing ways – snap windows to the screen edges and other windows, move and resize them with keyboard...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Snap-To-Side
    Snap-To-Corners
    35 alternatives
  7. i3-gaps icon
     2 likes

    i3-gaps is a fork of i3wm, a tiling window manager for X11. It is kept up to date with upstream, adding a few additional features such as gaps between windows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    51 alternatives
  8. FreeSnap icon
     7 likes

    Ever try to size a window so it just touches the edge of the screen? It’s tedious (at least for me). FreeSnap allows you to instantly resize any window edge to the corresponding screen edge. Want that window to touch the right edge of the screen?

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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    41 alternatives
  9. WinSize2 icon
     9 likes

    WinSize2 can move windows automatically to a predefined place and / or resize the width and/or height to a predefined size.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Moving and resizing window
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    21 alternatives
  10. Taekwindow icon
     9 likes

    Taekwindow is a simple, lightweight and free Windows program that allows you to move and resize windows by dragging them with the Alt key, similar to many X11 window managers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    74 alternatives
  11. Cinch icon
     24 likes

    Cinch is Aero Snap for Macs- it offers simple, mouse-driven window management by defining the left, right, and top edges of your screen as hot zones. Cinching to the left or right edges of the screen will resize the window to fill exactly half the screen, allowing you to easily...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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    63 alternatives
  12. PyTyle icon
     1 like

    PyTyle is an extremely versatile and extensible tiling manager that is meant to be used on top of EWMH window managers. Its feature set was modeled after the basic tiling features of XMonad.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    72 alternatives
  13. ZMover icon
     4 likes

    ZMover helps you manage your desktop layout by enabling you to set the size, position and layering of application windows. Instead of wasting time rearranging windows across your single or multiple monitor display, you can configure ZMover to do the job for you.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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    5 alternatives
  14. QuickTile icon
     5 likes

    A lightweight utility for allowing you to quickly snap windows to a tiling grid under your existing Linux window manager. Can be triggered via keyboard shortcuts, the command line, or D-Bus calls.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • X11
    46 alternatives
  15. Bluetile icon
     8 likes

    Bluetile is a tiling window manager for Linux, designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment. It provides both a traditional, stacking layout mode as well as tiling layouts where windows are arranged to use the entire screen without overlapping.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    91 alternatives
  16. Slate icon
     7 likes

    Slate is a window management application similar to Divvy and SizeUp (except better and free!). Originally written to replace them due to some limitations in how each work, it attempts to overcome them by simply being extremely configurable.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    37 alternatives