Cardboard (Wayland compositor) Alternatives

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   Komorebi Window Manager

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   komorebi is a tiling window manager that works as an extension to Microsoft's Desktop Window Manager in Windows 10 and above.

   89 Komorebi Window Manager alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Proprietary

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows

   

   

   

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   mangowc

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   wayland compositor base wlroots and scenefx(dwm but wayland).

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Wayland Compositor

   Platforms

   • Wayland
   • Linux

   

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   Vivarium

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   A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots, with desktop semantics inspired by xmonad.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Wayland

   

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   bug.n

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   bug.n is a tiling window manager add-on for Microsoft Windows. It is written in the scripting language AutoHotkey.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Windows

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   dwm

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   dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts. All of the layouts can be applied dynamically, optimising the environment for the application in use and the task performed.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • BSD

   

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   wmii

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   wmii 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.

   75 wmii alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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   Polonium

    1 like

   An autotile manager for Plasma 6. An (unofficial) spiritual successor to Bismuth built on KWin 6. The descendant of autotile.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Window Manager
   • Wayland Compositor

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • KDE
   • Wayland

   

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    LeftWM

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    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

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • Linux

    

    

    

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    herbstluftwm

     5 likes

    herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    

    

    

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    Waybox

     1 like

    An openbox clone on Wayland (WIP).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application typeApplication types

    • Window Manager
    • Wayland Compositor

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Openbox
    • Wayland

    

    

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    miracle-wm

     1 like

    A Wayland compositor based on Mir. It features a tiling window manager at its core, very much in the style of i3 and sway. The intention is to build a compositor that is flashier and more feature-rich than either of those compositors, like swayfx.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

    • United States

    

    

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    Pinnacle

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    Pinnacle is a Wayland compositor built in Rust using Smithay. It's my attempt at creating something like AwesomeWM for Wayland.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

    

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