herbstluftwm Alternatives

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   wio

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   Wio is a Wayland compositor for Linux & FreeBSD which has a similar look & feel to plan9's rio.

   Cost / License

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

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • FreeBSD

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   sxwm

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   tiling window managers dont have to be difficult.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Origin

   • United Kingdom

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • X11

   • United Kingdom

   

   

   

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   Weston

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

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Window Manager
   • Wayland Compositor

   Origin

   • International

   Platforms

   • Linux

   • Global

   

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   Jay

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   A Wayland compositor.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Rust
   • Wayland

   

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   chadwm

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   Making dwm as beautiful as possible!.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Origin

   • India

   Platforms

   • Linux

   • India

   

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   PaperWM

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   PaperWM is an experimental Gnome Shell extension providing scrollable tiling of windows and per monitor workspaces. It's inspired by paper notebooks and tiling window managers. Supports Gnome Shell 3.28 and 3.30 on X11 and wayland.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • GNOME

   

   

   

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   Cage: the Wayland kiosk

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   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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    Cocoa-Way

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    Native macOS Wayland compositor in Rust using Smithay, providing seamless Linux app streaming and display with OpenGL rendering, HiDPI Retina support, hardware acceleration, polished UI, server-side decorations, direct Wayland protocol, and zero VM overhead.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application type

    • Wayland Compositor

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Homebrew
    • Wayland

    

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    strataWM

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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application typeApplication types

    • Window Manager
    • Wayland Compositor

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux

    

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    Mahogany

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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:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

    Application typeApplication types

    • Window Manager
    • Wayland Compositor

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

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    Way Cooler

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    Way Cooler is a tiling Wayland window manager, written in Rust, configurable using Lua, and extendable with D-Bus.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux

    

    

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    Xlambda

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    Xlambda is an X window manager that is extensible in Guile.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • Linux

    

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