Sawfish Alternatives

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

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    The ultimate desktop organizer. DeskPose NXT helps you to find your applications fast, organize your desktop and become more productive.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. goScreen icon
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    GoScreen is truly indispensable tool on any Microsoft Windows computer. It creates a number of virtual pages on the monitor screen. When a program is started, it is placed on the current - "active" screen page. When one then goes to another page, the program is left on.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. Splitview icon
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    SplitView enables dual monitor usage with Remote Desktop and widescreen monitors.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. strataWM icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
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    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:

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
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    Making dwm as beautiful as possible!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. Robata icon
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    Robata is a macOS app to quickly see all of your desktop windows, find the one you want, and switch to it.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. 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.

    58 Cage: the Wayland kiosk alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
  10. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • X11
     
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    Weston is a Wayland compositor designed for correctness, reliability, predictability, and performance.

    60 Weston alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Wio is a Wayland compositor for Linux & FreeBSD which has a similar look & feel to plan9's rio.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
     
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