Labwc stands for Lab Wayland Compositor, where lab can mean any of the following:
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
- 25 Labwc alternatives
bug.n is a tiling window manager add-on for Microsoft Windows. It is written in the scripting language AutoHotkey.
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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Left is a tiling window manager written in rust for stability and performance. The core of left is designed to do one thing and one thing well. Be a window manager. Because you probably want more than just a black screen LeftWM is built around the concept of theming.
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Ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no rodent dependence. The screen can be split into non-overlapping frames. All windows are kept maximized inside their frames to take full advantage of your...
An autotile manager for Plasma 6. An (unofficial) spiritual successor to Bismuth built on KWin 6. The descendant of autotile.
- 79 dwl alternatives
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:
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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.
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.
