Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- X11
- Linux
- BSD
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Ratpoison Alternatives
Ratpoison is described as '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' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Ratpoison for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Mac and X11 apps. The best Ratpoison alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Ratpoison are niri, Sway, i3 and Openbox.
Alternatives list
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Linux
- Openbox
- Wayland
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Pinnacle is a Wayland compositor built in Rust using Smithay. It's my attempt at creating something like AwesomeWM for Wayland.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Wayland
A Wayland compositor based on Mir. It features a tiling window manager at its core, very much in the style of i3 and sway. The intention is to build a compositor that is flashier and more feature-rich than either of those compositors, like swayfx.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Wayland
United States
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Wayland
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An autotile manager for Plasma 6. An (unofficial) spiritual successor to Bismuth built on KWin 6. The descendant of autotile.
Platforms
- Linux
- KDE
- Wayland
PyTyle is an 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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
Bluetile is a tiling window manager for Linux, designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment. It provides both a traditional, stacking layout mode as well as tiling layouts where windows are arranged to use the entire screen without overlapping.
Platforms
- Linux
Germany
EU
Platforms
- Windows
pekwm is a window manager that once up on a time was based on the aewm++ window manager, but it has evolved enough that it no longer resembles aewm++ at all. It has a much expanded feature-set, including window grouping (similar to ion, pwm, or fluxbox), autoproperties...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
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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
