Fluxbox Alternatives

Fluxbox is described as 'Window manager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. It is very light on resources and easy to handle but yet full of features to make an easy, and extremely fast, desktop experience. It is built using C++ and licensed under the MIT license' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Fluxbox for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Mac and Windows apps. The best Fluxbox alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Fluxbox are niri, i3, Sway and Openbox.

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  1. 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.

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    • Wayland
    • Linux
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  2. Automatic tiling window manager for Windows 10.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  3. Window manager for X inspired by DWM, i3, and other tiling window managers. Windows are assigned to tags, and are automatically arranged on the screen in a stacked layout making the most of your monitor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • X11
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  4. sxwm icon
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    tiling window managers dont have to be difficult.

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    • Linux
    • X11
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    Weston is a Wayland compositor designed for correctness, reliability, predictability, and performance.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Linux
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  6. The Emerald Theme Manager allows you to install, edit and switch between Emerald themes. In order for it to work, select Emerald as your window decorator. You will also need to enable the Window Decorations plugin (via CCSM).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Debian
    • Ubuntu
    • BSD
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    A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots, with desktop semantics inspired by xmonad.

    Cost / License

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
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  8. mangowc icon
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    wayland compositor base wlroots and scenefx(dwm but wayland).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux
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    Mahogany is a tiling window manager for Wayland modeled after StumpWM. While it is not a drop-in replacement for StumpWM, StumpWM users should be very comfortable with Mahogany. Its planned features are:

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    • Linux
    • Wayland
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  10. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
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