A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor (forked from dwl) that makes it a breeze to create custom layouts with a simple configuration. 🚀
i3-gaps Alternatives
i3-gaps is described as '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' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to i3-gaps for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Mac and FreeBSD apps. The best i3-gaps alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like i3-gaps are niri, Sway, i3 and awesome.
Alternatives list
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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JWM is a light-weight window manager for the X11 Window System. JWM is written in C and uses only Xlib at a minimum. Because of its small footprint, JWM makes a good window manager for older computers and less powerful systems, such as the .
25 Labwc alternativesLabwc stands for Lab Wayland Compositor, where lab can mean any of the following:
bug.n is a tiling window manager add-on for Microsoft Windows. It is written in the scripting language AutoHotkey.
hikari [ja. Light] is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
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Left is a tiling window manager written in rust for stability and performance. The core of left is designed to do one thing and one thing well. Be a window manager. Because you probably want more than just a black screen LeftWM is built around the concept of theming.
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- 67 miracle-wm alternatives
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.
