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wmii Alternatives
wmii is described as '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' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to wmii for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Mac and Windows apps. The best wmii alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like wmii are niri, Sway, i3 and Openbox.
Alternatives list
- 60 Weston alternatives
Weston is a Wayland compositor designed for correctness, reliability, predictability, and performance.
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.
Linux auto tiling manager with hot corner support for Openbox, Fluxbox, IceWM, Xfwm, KWin, Marco, Muffin, Mutter and other EWMH compliant window managers using the X11 window system.
58 Cage: the Wayland kiosk alternativesCage is a kiosk compositor for Wayland. A kiosk is a window manager (in the X11 world) or compositor (in the Wayland world) that is designed for a user experience wherein user interaction and activities outside the scope of the running application are prevented.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Linux
- Wayland
Mahogany is a tiling window manager for Wayland modeled after StumpWM. While it is not a drop-in replacement for StumpWM, StumpWM users should be very comfortable with Mahogany. Its planned features are:
Way Cooler is a tiling Wayland window manager, written in Rust, configurable using Lua, and extendable with D-Bus.
Strata is a cutting-edge, robust and sleek Wayland compositor written in Rust using the Smithay library. It is designed to be minimal and flexible yet customizable. Strata is configured in Lua, a lightweight, high-level, multi-paradigm programming language.
