hikari [ja. Light] is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
+2
B
Blackbox WM Alternatives
Blackbox WM is described as 'Blackbox is an original window manager, sharing no code with any others. It's designed to be fairly small and minimal, making it particularly suited to less powerful computers. It doesn't support images, other than generated gradients, but it does support multiple' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Blackbox WM for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Mac and Windows apps. The best Blackbox WM alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Blackbox WM are niri, Sway, i3 and Openbox.
Alternatives list
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
+1
B
75 wmii alternativeswmii is a small, dynamic window manager for X11. It is scriptable, has a 9p filesystem interface and supports classic and tiling (acme-like) window management. It aims to maintain a small and clean (read hackable and beautiful) codebase.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
B
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Linux
B
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- GNOME
- Wayland
B
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Qt
- Wayland
+1
B
JWM is a light-weight window manager for the X11 Window System. JWM is written in C and uses only Xlib at a minimum. Because of its small footprint, JWM makes a good window manager for older computers and less powerful systems, such as the .
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
B
Left is a tiling window manager written in rust for stability and performance. The core of left is designed to do one thing and one thing well. Be a window manager. Because you probably want more than just a black screen LeftWM is built around the concept of theming.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
+1
B
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
+2
B
58 Lumina Desktop Environment alternativesLumina is a lightweight, BSD licensed, standards-compliant desktop environment based upon Qt and Fluxbox. It is being developed on PC-BSD, and is being packaged for distribution on the PC-BSD package repository as well.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
- PC-BSD
B
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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- X11
BCost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Linux
- Openbox
- Wayland
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