bspwm Alternatives

bspwm is described as 'A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to bspwm for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Mac and Windows apps. The best bspwm alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like bspwm are niri, Sway, i3 and Openbox.

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  1. Gnome Mutter icon
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    Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
    • Wayland
     
  2. Whim icon
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    Whim is a hackable, pluggable and scriptable dynamic window manager for Windows 10 and 11, built using WinUI 3, .NET, and C# scripting.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. Phoenix icon
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    Phoenix is a lightweight OS X window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript. You can also easily use languages which compile to JavaScript such as CoffeeScript. Phoenix aims for efficiency and a very small footprint.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. WMFS² icon
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    WMFS² is a lightweight and highly configurable tiling window manager for X written in C. WMFS² is a free software distributed under the BSD license. It can be driven from keyboard or mouse and its configuration stands in one text file, easily understandable.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. Manual Grid Tiling Layout Of Stack Window Manager.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
     
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    Comments about GridWM (KDE Plasma) as an Alternative to bspwm
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    It's make for KDE Plasma and is not a real tiling WM.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • GridWM (KDE Plasma) is Free and Open Sourcebspwm is also Free and Open Source
  6. Cage is a kiosk compositor for Wayland. A kiosk is a window manager (in the X11 world) or compositor (in the Wayland world) that is designed for a user experience wherein user interaction and activities outside the scope of the running application are prevented.

    58 Cage: the Wayland kiosk alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
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    A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
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    A Wayland compositor.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Rust
    • Wayland
     
  9. strataWM icon
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    Strata is a cutting-edge, robust and sleek Wayland compositor written in Rust using the Smithay library. It is designed to be minimal and flexible yet customizable. Strata is configured in Lua, a lightweight, high-level, multi-paradigm programming language.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux
     
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    Heavily Inspired by i3wm. Wmderland aims to simplify the core functionalities of i3wm, and bundle in the essential features required for a modern but minimal Tiling Window Manager.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. wtftw icon
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    Window Tiling For The Win (wtftw) is a tiling window manager written in Rust.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  12. The fastest, simplest tiler for KDE Plasma 6+ that gives you full freedom at your fingertip. No need to remember dozens of keyboard shortcuts or be limited by a fixed tile layout.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
     
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