Cardboard is a unique, scrollable tiling Wayland compositor designed with laptops in mind. Based on wlroots.
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dwm Alternatives
dwm is described as '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' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to dwm for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Mac and X11 apps. The best dwm alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like dwm are Sway, niri, i3 and Openbox.
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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.
A minimalist Linux smartphone environment that is truly yours to control. Sxmo, or Simple X Mobile, is a collection of simple and suckless X programs and scripts used together to create a fully functional mobile UI adhering to the Unix philosophy for the PinePhone and other...
Wayland compositor featuring dynamic tiling and Master&Stack layout, offering configuration through riverctl tool with tag system for window management, customizable with rivertile and user layout generators, allowing flexible workspace setup without traditional workspaces.
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IceWM is a Window Manager for X Window System. It is fast and memory-efficient, and it provides many different looks including Windows'95, OS/2 Warp 3,4, Motif.
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110 Amethyst alternativesAmethyst is a tiling window manager for Mac similar to the xmonad tiling window manager popular on Linux. Amethyst is written in Objective-C and has configurable shortcuts, multi-monitor support, multiple layouts, and the option to float certain applications.
119 yabai alternativesyabai started as a C99 rewrite of chunkwm, originally supposed to be its first RC version.
88 Komorebi Window Manager alternativeskomorebi is a tiling window manager that works as an extension to Microsoft's Desktop Window Manager in Windows 10 and above.
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Sway is an incredible window manager, and certainly one of the most well established wayland window managers. However, it is restricted to only include the functionality that existed in i3. This fork ditches the simple wlr_renderer, and replaces it with our fx_renderer, capable...
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- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
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- Linux
- Arch Linux
- Gentoo Linux
- Fedora
- Nix Package Manager
- Sway
- FreeBSD
- Wayland
82 Xmonad alternativesxmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell. In a normal WM, you spend half your time aligning and searching for windows. xmonad makes work easier, by automating this.
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A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor (forked from dwl) that makes it a breeze to create custom layouts with a simple configuration. 🚀
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