Wmderland Alternatives

Wmderland is described as 'Heavily Inspired by i3wm. Wmderland aims to simplify the core functionalities of i3wm, and bundle in the essential features required for a modern but minimal Tiling Window Manager' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Wmderland for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Wayland, Mac and FreeBSD apps. The best Wmderland alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Wmderland are niri, Sway, i3 and Openbox.

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  1. pekwm icon
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    pekwm is a window manager that once up on a time was based on the aewm++ window manager, but it has evolved enough that it no longer resembles aewm++ at all. It has a much expanded feature-set, including window grouping (similar to ion, pwm, or fluxbox), autoproperties...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  2.  1 like

    Blackbox is an original window manager, sharing no code with any others. It's designed to be fairly small and minimal, making it particularly suited to less powerful computers. It doesn't support images, other than generated gradients, but it does support multiple...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3.  1 like

    A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots, with desktop semantics inspired by xmonad.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. Gnome Mutter icon
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    Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
    • Wayland
     
  5. Phoenix icon
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    Phoenix is a lightweight OS X window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript. You can also easily use languages which compile to JavaScript such as CoffeeScript. Phoenix aims for efficiency and a very small footprint.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. WMFS² icon
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    WMFS² is a lightweight and highly configurable tiling window manager for X written in C. WMFS² is a free software distributed under the BSD license. It can be driven from keyboard or mouse and its configuration stands in one text file, easily understandable.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. wtftw icon
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    Window Tiling For The Win (wtftw) is a tiling window manager written in Rust.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  8.  Like

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

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    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
     
  9. MagmaWM icon
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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

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
  10. Way Cooler is a tiling Wayland window manager, written in Rust, configurable using Lua, and extendable with D-Bus.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11.  Like

    A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
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