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. ScrollWM icon

    ScrollWM

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    i3-compatible Wayland compositor (sway) with a PaperWM layout like niri or hyprscroller.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Arch Linux
    • Global
    ScrollWM screenshot 1
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  2. StumpWM icon

    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Global
    StumpWM screenshot 1
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  4. Miriway icon

    Miriway

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    Miriway is a starting point for creating a Wayland based desktop environment using Mir.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
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  8. mangowc icon

    mangowc

     1 like

    wayland compositor base wlroots and scenefx(dwm but wayland).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux
    mangowc screenshot 1
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  10. Gnome Mutter icon

    Gnome Mutter

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    Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
    • Wayland
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  11. doWM icon

    doWM

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    doWM is a beautiful floating and tiling window manager for X11 completely written in golang.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • X11
    • Linux
    • BSD
    doWM screenshot 1
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  13. C

    chadwm

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    Making dwm as beautiful as possible!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • IN flagIndia
    chadwm screenshot 1
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  14. yashiki icon

    yashiki

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    macOS tiling window manager.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    yashiki screenshot 1
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