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 X11 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.

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Way Cooler
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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
Window Manager
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Linux
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strataWM
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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.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
Window Manager
Wayland Compositor
Platforms
Wayland
Linux
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yashiki
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macOS tiling window manager.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Window Manager
Platforms
Mac
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