IceWM Alternatives

Alternatives list

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   flwm

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   The Fast Light Window Manager is a small stacking FLTK-based window manager written in C++ and available for redistribution under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • BSD

   

   

   

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   Vivarium

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   A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots, with desktop semantics inspired by xmonad.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Wayland

   

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   Blackbox WM

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   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

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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   Whim

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   Whim is a hackable, pluggable and scriptable dynamic window manager for Windows 10 and 11, built using WinUI 3, .NET, and C# scripting.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Origin

   • Sweden
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Windows

   • Sweden
   • EU

   

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   wtftw

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   Window Tiling For The Win (wtftw) is a tiling window manager written in Rust.

   Cost / License

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

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Linux

   

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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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   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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    MagmaWM

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    A versatile and customizable window manager / Wayland compositor, currently in development and actively seeking contributions from the community.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

    

    

    

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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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    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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    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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    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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