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 X11 apps. The best Sawfish alternative is niri, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Sawfish are Openbox, Cardboard (Wayland compositor), awesome and KWin.

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    Weston

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Global
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    wio

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

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    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
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    sxwm

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    tiling window managers dont have to be difficult.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • X11
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
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    Cagebreak

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    A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
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    Xlambda

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    Xlambda is an X window manager that is extensible in Guile.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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    Subtle window manager

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    subtle is a manual tiling window manager with a rather uncommon approach of tiling: Instead of relying on predefined layouts, subtle divides the screen into a grid with customizeable slots (called gravities).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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    CLFSWM

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • X11
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    StumpWM

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    StumpWM is a tiling, keyboard driven X11 Window Manager written and scriptable in Common Lisp. StumpWM attempts to be customizable yet visually minimal. There are no window decorations, no icons, and no buttons.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Global
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    Jay

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    A Wayland compositor.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Rust
    • Wayland
    Jay screenshot 1
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    PowerResizer

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    PowerResizer is a utility that provides many facilities in moving or resizing windows in a Microsoft Windows desktop environment.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • IT flagItaly
    • European Union flagEU
    PowerResizer screenshot 1
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