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.

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  1. Cagebreak

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    A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
  2. Xlambda icon

    Xlambda

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    Xlambda is an X window manager that is extensible in Guile.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. Cage: the Wayland kiosk icon

    Cage: the Wayland kiosk

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    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.

    58 Cage: the Wayland kiosk alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
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