herbstluftwm Alternatives

Alternatives list

1. V

   V

   Vivarium

    1 like

   A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots, with desktop semantics inspired by xmonad.

   78 Vivarium alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Wayland

   

   More about Vivarium  

   V

   

   Good alternative?Is Vivarium a good alternative to herbstluftwm?

    
2. B

   B

   Blackbox WM

    1 like

   Blackbox is an original window manager, sharing no code with any others. It's designed to be fairly small and minimal, making it particularly suited to less powerful computers. It doesn't support images, other than generated gradients, but it does support multiple...

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

   More about Blackbox WM  

   B

   

   Good alternative?Is Blackbox WM a good alternative to herbstluftwm?

    
4. 

   

   Whim

    Like

   Whim is a hackable, pluggable and scriptable dynamic window manager for Windows 10 and 11, built using WinUI 3, .NET, and C# scripting.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Origin

   • Sweden
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Windows

   • Sweden
   • EU

   

   More about Whim  

   

   Good alternative?Is Whim a good alternative to herbstluftwm?

    
5. 

   

   WMFS²

    2 likes

   WMFS² is a lightweight and highly configurable tiling window manager for X written in C. WMFS² is a free software distributed under the BSD license. It can be driven from keyboard or mouse and its configuration stands in one text file, easily understandable.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

   

   

   More about WMFS²  

   

   Good alternative?Is WMFS² a good alternative to herbstluftwm?

    
6. C

   C

   Cagebreak

    Like

   A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Wayland

   C

   

   Good alternative?Is Cagebreak a good alternative to herbstluftwm?

    
8. 

   

   wtftw

    Like

   Window Tiling For The Win (wtftw) is a tiling window manager written in Rust.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (BSD-3-Clause)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Linux

   

   More about wtftw  

   

   Good alternative?Is wtftw a good alternative to herbstluftwm?

    
9. 

   

   Cortile

    Like

   Linux auto tiling manager with hot corner support for Openbox, Fluxbox, IceWM, Xfwm, KWin, Marco, Muffin, Mutter and other EWMH compliant window managers using the X11 window system.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

   More about Cortile  

   

   Good alternative?Is Cortile a good alternative to herbstluftwm?

    
10. 

    

    MagmaWM

     Like

    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

    • Window Manager

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

    

    

    

    +3

    

    More about MagmaWM  

    

    Good alternative?Is MagmaWM a good alternative to herbstluftwm?

     
11. S

    S

    Superior X Window Manager

     Like

    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

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • X11

    S

    

    Good alternative?Is this a good alternative to herbstluftwm?

     
12. 

    

    StumpWM

     Like

    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

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Origin

    • International

    Platforms

    • Linux

    • Global

    

    

    

    More about StumpWM  

    

    Good alternative?Is StumpWM a good alternative to herbstluftwm?

     
13. W

    W

    Wmderland

     Like

    Heavily Inspired by i3wm. Wmderland aims to simplify the core functionalities of i3wm, and bundle in the essential features required for a modern but minimal Tiling Window Manager.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • Linux

    

    More about Wmderland  

    W

    

    Good alternative?Is Wmderland a good alternative to herbstluftwm?

     
14. P

    P

    paneru

     Like

    A scrollable, tiling window manager for MacOS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • Mac

    

    More about paneru  

    P

    

    Good alternative?Is paneru a good alternative to herbstluftwm?