Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
IceWM Alternatives
IceWM is described as 'Window Manager for X Window System. It is fast and memory-efficient, and it provides many different looks including Windows'95, OS/2 Warp 3,4, Motif' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to IceWM for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Mac and X11 apps. The best IceWM alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like IceWM are niri, Sway, LXDE and i3.
Alternatives list
spectrwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff. It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any configuration.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Wayland
- Linux
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
+2
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
+1
75 wmii alternativeswmii is a small, dynamic window manager for X11. It is scriptable, has a 9p filesystem interface and supports classic and tiling (acme-like) window management. It aims to maintain a small and clean (read hackable and beautiful) codebase.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Linux
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- GNOME
- Wayland
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Qt
- Wayland
+1
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 .
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
+1
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
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