Sway Alternatives

Sway is described as 'Tiling Wayland Compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11. It works with your existing i3 configuration and supports most of i3's features, plus a few extras' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Sway for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, Mac, BSD and Windows apps. The best Sway alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Sway are i3, SwayFX, GlazeWM and Wayfire.

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  1. yabai icon

    yabai

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    yabai started as a C99 rewrite of chunkwm, originally supposed to be its first RC version.

    132 yabai alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • NO flagNorway
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  2. Xmonad icon

    Xmonad

     25 likes

    xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell. In a normal WM, you spend half your time aligning and searching for windows. xmonad makes work easier, by automating this.

    82 Xmonad alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • X11
    • Haskell
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  4. MagmaWM icon

    MagmaWM

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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

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
    MagmaWM screenshot 1
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  6. Amethyst icon

    Amethyst

     22 likes

    Amethyst is a tiling window manager for Mac similar to the xmonad tiling window manager popular on Linux. Amethyst is written in Objective-C and has configurable shortcuts, multi-monitor support, multiple layouts, and the option to float certain applications.

    117 Amethyst alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • US flagUnited States
    Amethyst screenshot 1
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  8. C

    Cagebreak

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    A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
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  9. D

    dwl

     1 like

    dwl is a compact, hackable compositor for Wayland based on wlroots. It is intended to fill the same space in the Wayland world that dwm does in X11, primarily in terms of functionality, and secondarily in terms of philosophy. Like dwm, dwl is:

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
    dwl screenshot 1
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  10. Pinnacle icon

    Pinnacle

     1 like

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

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
    Pinnacle screenshot 1
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  11. PaperDE icon

    PaperDE

     1 like

    A light-weight desktop environment based on Qt/Wayland and wayfire.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Qt
    • Wayland
    PaperDE screenshot 1
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  13. herbstluftwm icon

    herbstluftwm

     5 likes

    herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    herbstluftwm screenshot 1
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