Gnome Mutter Alternatives

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

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  1. Ratpoison icon
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    Ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no rodent dependence. The screen can be split into non-overlapping frames. All windows are kept maximized inside their frames to take full advantage of your...

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    • Linux
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  2. miracle-wm icon
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    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.

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    • Linux
    • Wayland
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  3. Pinnacle icon
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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.

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    • Linux
    • Wayland
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  4.  1 like

    dwl is a compact, hackable compositor for Wayland based on wlroots. It is intended to fill the same space in the Wayland world that dwm does in X11, primarily in terms of functionality, and secondarily in terms of philosophy. Like dwm, dwl is:

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    • Linux
    • Wayland
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  5. i3-gaps icon
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    i3-gaps is a fork of i3wm, a tiling window manager for X11. It is kept up to date with upstream, adding a few additional features such as gaps between windows.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
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  6. PyTyle icon
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    PyTyle is an extremely versatile and extensible tiling manager that is meant to be used on top of EWMH window managers. Its feature set was modeled after the basic tiling features of XMonad.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  7. Bluetile icon
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    Bluetile is a tiling window manager for Linux, designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment. It provides both a traditional, stacking layout mode as well as tiling layouts where windows are arranged to use the entire screen without overlapping.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
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  8. Automatic tiling window manager for Windows 10.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  9. pekwm icon
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    pekwm is a window manager that once up on a time was based on the aewm++ window manager, but it has evolved enough that it no longer resembles aewm++ at all. It has a much expanded feature-set, including window grouping (similar to ion, pwm, or fluxbox), autoproperties...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  10. flwm icon
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    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.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
    • BSD
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  11. Sawfish icon
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    Sawfish is an extensible window manager using a Lisp-based scripting language. Its policy is very minimal compared to most window managers. Its aim is simply to manage windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible.

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    • Linux
    • X11
    • Window Manager
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