Pinnacle is a Wayland compositor built in Rust using Smithay. It's my attempt at creating something like AwesomeWM for Wayland.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Wayland
Komorebi Window Manager Alternatives
Komorebi Window Manager is described as 'Komorebi is a tiling window manager that works as an extension to Microsoft's Desktop Window Manager in Windows 10 and above' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Komorebi Window Manager for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, Mac, BSD and Windows apps. The best Komorebi Window Manager alternative is GNOME, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Komorebi Window Manager are Hyprland, COSMIC, niri and Sway.
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A Wayland compositor based on Mir. It features a tiling window manager at its core, very much in the style of i3 and sway. The intention is to build a compositor that is flashier and more feature-rich than either of those compositors, like swayfx.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Wayland
United States
An autotile manager for Plasma 6. An (unofficial) spiritual successor to Bismuth built on KWin 6. The descendant of autotile.
Platforms
- Linux
- KDE
- Wayland
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Wayland
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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.
Platforms
- Linux
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
Bulgaria
EU
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
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.
Platforms
- Linux
Germany- EU
Aqua is the graphical user interface, design language and visual theme of Apple's macOS operating system.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- United States
Platforms
- Windows
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
+2
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
Platforms
- Windows
Sweden- EU
