IceWM is a Window Manager for X Window System. It is fast and memory-efficient, and it provides many different looks including Windows'95, OS/2 Warp 3,4, Motif.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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- Linux
- BSD
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PaperWM Alternatives
PaperWM is described as 'Experimental Gnome Shell extension providing scrollable tiling of windows and per monitor workspaces. It's inspired by paper notebooks and tiling window managers. Supports Gnome Shell 3.28 and 3.30 on X11 and wayland' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to PaperWM for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Mac, Wayland and FreeBSD apps. The best PaperWM alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PaperWM are niri, Sway, i3 and Openbox.
Alternatives list
- 74 IceWM alternatives
117 Amethyst alternativesAmethyst is a tiling window manager for Mac similar to the xmonad tiling window manager popular on Linux. Amethyst is written in Objective-C and has configurable shortcuts, multi-monitor support, multiple layouts, and the option to float certain applications.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
United States
132 yabai alternativesyabai started as a C99 rewrite of chunkwm, originally supposed to be its first RC version.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
Norway
89 Komorebi Window Manager alternativeskomorebi is a tiling window manager that works as an extension to Microsoft's Desktop Window Manager in Windows 10 and above.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
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A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor (forked from dwl) that makes it a breeze to create custom layouts with a simple configuration. 🚀
Platforms
- Linux
dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts. All of the layouts can be applied dynamically, optimising the environment for the application in use and the task performed.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
82 Xmonad alternativesxmonad 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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (BSD-3-Clause)
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Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- X11
- Haskell
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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
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Debian
- Ubuntu
- BSD
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
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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)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Arch Linux
- Gentoo Linux
- Fedora
- Nix Package Manager
- Sway
- FreeBSD
- Wayland
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
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
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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