Qtile is described as 'A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Qtile for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Mac and X11 apps. The best Qtile alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Qtile are niri, Sway, i3 and Openbox.
Strata is a cutting-edge, robust and sleek Wayland compositor written in Rust using the Smithay library. It is designed to be minimal and flexible yet customizable. Strata is configured in Lua, a lightweight, high-level, multi-paradigm programming language.
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.
Window manager for X inspired by DWM, i3, and other tiling window managers. Windows are assigned to tags, and are automatically arranged on the screen in a stacked layout making the most of your monitor.
Way Cooler is a tiling Wayland window manager, written in Rust, configurable using Lua, and extendable with D-Bus.
A versatile and customizable window manager / Wayland compositor, currently in development and actively seeking contributions from the community.
CLFSWM is a highly dynamic. 100% Common Lisp X11 window manager. By default there is only one frame (the root frame). Other frames are created/deleted on the fly. A window can be in more than one frame, so it can have multiple views of the same windows.
Heavily Inspired by i3wm. Wmderland aims to simplify the core functionalities of i3wm, and bundle in the essential features required for a modern but minimal Tiling Window Manager.
