doWM Alternatives

doWM is described as 'Beautiful floating and tiling window manager for X11 completely written in golang' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to doWM for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Mac and Windows apps. The best doWM alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like doWM are niri, GlazeWM, Sway and i3.

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  1. MagmaWM icon

    MagmaWM

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    A versatile and customizable window manager / Wayland compositor, currently in development and actively seeking contributions from the community.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
    MagmaWM screenshot 1
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  2. wtftw icon

    wtftw

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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
    wtftw screenshot 1
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  4. StumpWM icon

    StumpWM

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    StumpWM is a tiling, keyboard driven X11 Window Manager written and scriptable in Common Lisp. StumpWM attempts to be customizable yet visually minimal. There are no window decorations, no icons, and no buttons.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Global
    StumpWM screenshot 1
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  5. Way Cooler icon

    Way Cooler

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    Way Cooler is a tiling Wayland window manager, written in Rust, configurable using Lua, and extendable with D-Bus.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Way Cooler screenshot 1
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  6. J

    Jay

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    A Wayland compositor.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Rust
    • Wayland
    Jay screenshot 1
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  8. P

    paneru

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    A scrollable, tiling window manager for MacOS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    paneru screenshot 1
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  9. W

    wio

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    Wio is a Wayland compositor for Linux & FreeBSD which has a similar look & feel to plan9's rio.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
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  10. PaperWM icon

    PaperWM

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    PaperWM is an experimental Gnome Shell extension providing scrollable tiling of windows and per monitor workspaces. It's inspired by paper notebooks and tiling window managers. Supports Gnome Shell 3.28 and 3.30 on X11 and wayland.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
    Window switching and tiling.
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