Amethyst Alternatives

Alternatives list

1. 

   

   term.everything

    1 like

   Run any GUI app in the terminal?.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (AGPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Wayland Compositor

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

   

   

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2. 

   

   wmii

    9 likes

   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.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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   Wins

    2 likes

   Wins is a Windows Manager, which brings system-level arrange window features to Mac.

   Cost / License

   • Paid
   • Proprietary

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Mac

   

   

   

   +8

   

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   Labwc

    2 likes

   Labwc stands for Lab Wayland Compositor, where lab can mean any of the following:

   33 Labwc alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Window Manager
   • Wayland Compositor

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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7. 

   

   Gnome Mutter

    1 like

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

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • GNOME
   • Wayland

   

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   PaperDE

    1 like

   A light-weight desktop environment based on Qt/Wayland and wayfire.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Qt
   • Wayland

   

   

   

   +1

   

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    JWM

     5 likes

    JWM 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 .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • Linux

    

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11. 

    

    workspacer

     3 likes

    workspacer is a tiling window manager for Windows 10, similar in style and function to common unix tiling window managers (dwm, i3, xmonad).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • Windows

    

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12. 

    

    VEEER

     5 likes

    VEEER is a lightweight window manager for your mac OSX - designed for designers & developers and built for a maximum workflow speed.

    71 VEEER alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • Mac

    

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13. 

    

    Umbriel

     1 like

    Umbriel is a Wayland compositor designed for daily use, with scrolling, dwindle, and master layouts, per-output workspaces, window rules, blur, shadows, and fluid animations.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    • Wayland Compositor

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

    

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    LeftWM

     3 likes

    Left is a tiling window manager written in rust for stability and performance. The core of left is designed to do one thing and one thing well. Be a window manager. Because you probably want more than just a black screen LeftWM is built around the concept of theming.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • Linux

    

    

    

    +1

    

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15. 

    

    herbstluftwm

     5 likes

    herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    

    

    

    +2

    

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