A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor (forked from dwl) that makes it a breeze to create custom layouts with a simple configuration. 🚀
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Vivarium Alternatives
Vivarium is described as 'A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots, with desktop semantics inspired by xmonad' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Vivarium for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Mac and X11 apps. The best Vivarium alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Vivarium are niri, GlazeWM, i3 and Sway.
Alternatives list
The Emerald Theme Manager allows you to install, edit and switch between Emerald themes. In order for it to work, select Emerald as your window decorator. You will also need to enable the Window Decorations plugin (via CCSM).
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spectrwm is a 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.
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wmii is a small, dynamic window manager for X11. It is scriptable, has a 9p filesystem interface and supports classic and tiling (acme-like) window management. It aims to maintain a small and clean (read hackable and beautiful) codebase.
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hikari [ja. Light] is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
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76 JWM alternativesJWM 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 .
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