mangowc Alternatives

mangowc is described as 'Wayland compositor base wlroots and scenefx(dwm but wayland)' and is a wayland compositor in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to mangowc for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Wayland, Mac and Windows apps. The best mangowc alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like mangowc are niri, GlazeWM, Sway and i3.

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  1. Xmonad icon
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    xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell. In a normal WM, you spend half your time aligning and searching for windows. xmonad makes work easier, by automating this.

    82 Xmonad alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • X11
    • Haskell
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  2. The Emerald Theme Manager allows you to install, edit and switch between Emerald themes. In order for it to work, select Emerald as your window decorator. You will also need to enable the Window Decorations plugin (via CCSM).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Debian
    • Ubuntu
    • BSD
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  3.  12 likes

    bug.n is a tiling window manager add-on for Microsoft Windows. It is written in the scripting language AutoHotkey.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  4. SwayFX icon
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    Sway is an incredible window manager, and certainly one of the most well established wayland window managers. However, it is restricted to only include the functionality that existed in i3. This fork ditches the simple wlr_renderer, and replaces it with our fx_renderer, capable...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Linux
    • Arch Linux
    • Gentoo Linux
    • Fedora
    • Nix Package Manager
    • Sway
    • FreeBSD
    • Wayland
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  5. spectrwm icon
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    spectrwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff. It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any configuration.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  6. hikari icon
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    hikari [ja. Light] is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  7. wmii icon
     9 likes

    wmii is a small, dynamic window manager for X11. It is scriptable, has a 9p filesystem interface and supports classic and tiling (acme-like) window management. It aims to maintain a small and clean (read hackable and beautiful) codebase.

    75 wmii alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  8. Gnome Mutter icon
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    Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library.

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    • Linux
    • GNOME
    • Wayland
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  9. JWM icon
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    JWM is a 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 .

    76 JWM alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Linux
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