Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
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Phoenix Alternatives
Phoenix is described as 'Lightweight OS X window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript. You can also easily use languages which compile to JavaScript such as CoffeeScript. Phoenix aims for efficiency and a very small footprint' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Phoenix for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Mac and X11 apps. The best Phoenix alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Phoenix are niri, Sway, i3 and Openbox.
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75 wmii alternativeswmii 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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
31 Labwc alternativesLabwc stands for Lab Wayland Compositor, where lab can mean any of the following:
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Linux
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- GNOME
- Wayland
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Qt
- Wayland
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76 JWM alternativesJWM 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 .
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
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Lumina is a lightweight, BSD licensed, standards-compliant desktop environment based upon Qt and Fluxbox. It is being developed on PC-BSD, and is being packaged for distribution on the PC-BSD package repository as well.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
- PC-BSD
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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- X11
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- X11
- Linux
- BSD
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Linux
- Openbox
- Wayland
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