JWM Alternatives

JWM is described as '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 ' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to JWM for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Mac and Windows apps. The best JWM alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like JWM are niri, Sway, i3 and Openbox.

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  1. Polonium icon
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    An autotile manager for Plasma 6. An (unofficial) spiritual successor to Bismuth built on KWin 6. The descendant of autotile.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
    • Wayland
     
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    dwl is a compact, hackable compositor for Wayland based on wlroots. It is intended to fill the same space in the Wayland world that dwm does in X11, primarily in terms of functionality, and secondarily in terms of philosophy. Like dwm, dwl is:

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
  3. xfwm4 icon
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    Xfwm4 is the window manager for Xfce. Xfwm4 can be run stand-alone, but if used this way, the Xfce Settings Manager will be required as a GUI to make configuration changes.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  4. doWM icon
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    doWM is a beautiful floating and tiling window manager for X11 completely written in golang.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • X11
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  5. i3-gaps icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. PyTyle icon
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    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
     
  7. Bluetile icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. pekwm icon
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    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
     
  9. flwm icon
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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

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  10.  1 like

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

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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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

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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