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




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 X11 apps. The best JWM alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like JWM are Sway, niri, i3 and Openbox.
A versatile and customizable window manager / Wayland compositor, currently in development and actively seeking contributions from the community.




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.
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.
Way Cooler is a tiling Wayland window manager, written in Rust, configurable using Lua, and extendable with D-Bus.








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.

