PyTyle Alternatives

PyTyle is described as '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' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to PyTyle for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Mac and X11 apps. The best PyTyle alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PyTyle are niri, Sway, i3 and Openbox.

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    bug.n is a tiling window manager add-on for Microsoft Windows. It is written in the scripting language AutoHotkey.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. SwayFX icon
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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
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  3. spectrwm icon
     11 likes

    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

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  4. mangowc icon
     1 like

    wayland compositor base wlroots and scenefx(dwm but wayland).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux
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  5. hikari icon
     2 likes

    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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  6. wmii icon
     9 likes

    wmii 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.

    75 wmii alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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  7. Gnome Mutter icon
     1 like

    Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
    • Wayland
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  8. PaperDE icon
     1 like

    A light-weight desktop environment based on Qt/Wayland and wayfire.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Qt
    • Wayland
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  9. JWM icon
     5 likes

    JWM 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 .

    76 JWM alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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  10. LeftWM icon
     3 likes

    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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