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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 Windows apps. The best IceWM alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like IceWM are niri, LXDE, Sway and i3.
Alternatives list
Whim is a hackable, pluggable and scriptable dynamic window manager for Windows 10 and 11, built using WinUI 3, .NET, and C# scripting.
58 Cage: the Wayland kiosk alternativesCage 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
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:
A versatile and customizable window manager / Wayland compositor, currently in development and actively seeking contributions from the community.
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- 60 Weston alternatives
Weston is a Wayland compositor designed for correctness, reliability, predictability, and performance.
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.
The fastest, simplest tiler for KDE Plasma 6+ that gives you full freedom at your fingertip. No need to remember dozens of keyboard shortcuts or be limited by a fixed tile layout.
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.
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