



spectrwm is described as 'Small dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff. It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any configuration' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to spectrwm for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Mac and Windows apps. The best spectrwm alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like spectrwm are niri, Sway, i3 and Openbox.




JWM is a light-weight window manager for the X11 Window System. JWM is written in C and uses only Xlib at a minimum. Because of its small footprint, JWM makes a good window manager for older computers and less powerful systems, such as the .

Labwc stands for Lab Wayland Compositor, where lab can mean any of the following:

bug.n is a tiling window manager add-on for Microsoft Windows. It is written in the scripting language AutoHotkey.
hikari [ja. Light] is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.








workspacer is a tiling window manager for Windows 10, similar in style and function to common unix tiling window managers (dwm, i3, xmonad).

Left is a tiling window manager written in rust for stability and performance. The core of left is designed to do one thing and one thing well. Be a window manager. Because you probably want more than just a black screen LeftWM is built around the concept of theming.








Pinnacle is a Wayland compositor built in Rust using Smithay. It's my attempt at creating something like AwesomeWM for 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.


