Pinnacle is a Wayland compositor built in Rust using Smithay. It's my attempt at creating something like AwesomeWM for Wayland.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Wayland
hikari Alternatives
hikari is described as '[ja. Light] is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux' and is an app. There are more than 50 alternatives to hikari for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, Mac, BSD and Windows apps. The best hikari alternative is GNOME, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like hikari are Hyprland, COSMIC, niri and Sway.
Alternatives list
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Wayland
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An autotile manager for Plasma 6. An (unofficial) spiritual successor to Bismuth built on KWin 6. The descendant of autotile.
Platforms
- Linux
- KDE
- Wayland
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.
Platforms
- Linux
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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
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.
Platforms
- Linux
Germany
EU
Aqua is the graphical user interface, design language and visual theme of Apple's macOS operating system.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
United States
Platforms
- Windows
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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
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Phoenix is a lightweight OS X window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript. You can also easily use languages which compile to JavaScript such as CoffeeScript. Phoenix aims for efficiency and a very small footprint.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
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
Platforms
- Linux
B- 78 Vivarium alternatives
A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots, with desktop semantics inspired by xmonad.
Platforms
- Linux
- Wayland
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