flwm AlternativesWindow Managers and other similar apps like flwm

flwm is described as 'The Fast Light Window Manager is a small stacking FLTK-based window manager written in C++ and available for redistribution under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to flwm for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, X11 and Windows apps. The best flwm alternative is niri, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like flwm are i3, Openbox, awesome and Fluxbox.

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  1. niri icon
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    Windows are arranged in columns on an infinite strip going to the right. Opening a new window never causes existing windows to resize.

    82 niri alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
  2. i3 icon
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    i3 is a dynamic tiling window manager with clean, readable and documented code, featuring extended Xinerama support, usage of libxcb instead of xlib and several improvements over wmii.

    84 i3 alternatives

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    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  3. Openbox icon
     78 likes

    Openbox is a highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support.

    78 Openbox alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  4. awesome icon
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    awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast, extensible and licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license.

    85 awesome alternatives

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    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  5. Fluxbox icon
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    Fluxbox is a 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.

    77 Fluxbox alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • C++
     
  6. Sxmo icon
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    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...

    73 Sxmo alternatives

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    • postmarketOS
    • Linux Mobile
     
  7. Cardboard is a unique, scrollable tiling Wayland compositor designed with laptops in mind. Based on wlroots.

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    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
  8. IceWM icon
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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.

    74 IceWM alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  9. dwm icon
     24 likes

    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

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  10. Xmonad icon
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    xmonad 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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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • X11
    • Haskell
     
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