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.

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 Windows 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.
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.

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.



Mahogany is a tiling window manager for Wayland modeled after StumpWM. While it is not a drop-in replacement for StumpWM, StumpWM users should be very comfortable with Mahogany. Its planned features are:
PaperWM is an experimental Gnome Shell extension providing scrollable tiling of windows and per monitor workspaces. It's inspired by paper notebooks and tiling window managers. Supports Gnome Shell 3.28 and 3.30 on X11 and wayland.




A versatile and customizable window manager / Wayland compositor, currently in development and actively seeking contributions from the community.





Way Cooler is a tiling Wayland window manager, written in Rust, configurable using Lua, and extendable with D-Bus.



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.

Weston is a Wayland compositor designed for correctness, reliability, predictability, and performance.
