The Fast Light Window Manager is a small stacking FLTK-based window manager written in C++ and available for redistribution under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence.
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
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Polonium Alternatives
Polonium is described as 'An autotile manager for Plasma 6. An (unofficial) spiritual successor to Bismuth built on KWin 6. The descendant of autotile' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Polonium for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Mac and Windows apps. The best Polonium alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Polonium are niri, Sway, GlazeWM and i3.
Alternatives list
Sawfish is an extensible window manager using a Lisp-based scripting language. Its policy is very minimal compared to most window managers. Its aim is simply to manage windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- X11
- Window Manager
Phoenix is a 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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- 78 Vivarium alternatives
A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots, with desktop semantics inspired by xmonad.
Platforms
- Linux
- Wayland
V Blackbox is an original window manager, sharing no code with any others. It's designed to be fairly small and minimal, making it particularly suited to less powerful computers. It doesn't support images, other than generated gradients, but it does support multiple...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
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Whim is a hackable, pluggable and scriptable dynamic window manager for Windows 10 and 11, built using WinUI 3, .NET, and C# scripting.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
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WMFS² is a lightweight and highly configurable tiling window manager for X written in C. WMFS² is a free software distributed under the BSD license. It can be driven from keyboard or mouse and its configuration stands in one text file, easily understandable.
Platforms
- Linux
47 GridWM (KDE Plasma) alternativesManual Grid Tiling Layout Of Stack Window Manager.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- KDE
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- X11
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Linux auto tiling manager with hot corner support for Openbox, Fluxbox, IceWM, Xfwm, KWin, Marco, Muffin, Mutter and other EWMH compliant window managers using the X11 window system.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
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subtle is a manual tiling window manager with a rather uncommon approach of tiling: Instead of relying on predefined layouts, subtle divides the screen into a grid with customizeable slots (called gravities).
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
