Amethyst Windows Alternatives

Amethyst Windows has been discontinued. Similar apps include Hyprland, which is free and open source. Other options are Rectangle, niri, i3 and Sway. There's no shortage of Window Managers like Amethyst Windows, with more than 100 alternatives for Linux, Mac and Windows.

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  1. JWM icon
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    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)

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

    70 VEEER alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  3. LeftWM icon
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    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)

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    • Linux
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  4. herbstluftwm icon
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    herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  5. PlasmaZones icon
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    Window management tool enabling creation of custom zones, drag-and-snap, keyboard shortcuts, automated window assignments, layout editor with templates, GPU overlays, multi-monitor layouts, virtual desktop and activity support, plus KCM integration for easy configuration.

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    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
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  6. Ratpoison icon
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    Ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no rodent dependence. The screen can be split into non-overlapping frames. All windows are kept maximized inside their frames to take full advantage of your...

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    • Linux
    • X11
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  7.  1 like

    An openbox clone on Wayland (WIP).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Openbox
    • Wayland
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  8. Pinnacle icon
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    Pinnacle is a Wayland compositor built in Rust using Smithay. It's my attempt at creating something like AwesomeWM for Wayland.

    66 Pinnacle alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Wayland
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  9. miracle-wm icon
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    A Wayland compositor based on Mir. It features a tiling window manager at its core, very much in the style of i3 and sway. The intention is to build a compositor that is flashier and more feature-rich than either of those compositors, like swayfx.

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    • Linux
    • Wayland
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  10.  1 like

    dwl is a compact, hackable compositor for Wayland based on wlroots. It is intended to fill the same space in the Wayland world that dwm does in X11, primarily in terms of functionality, and secondarily in terms of philosophy. Like dwm, dwl is:

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    • Linux
    • Wayland
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  11. Polonium icon
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    An autotile manager for Plasma 6. An (unofficial) spiritual successor to Bismuth built on KWin 6. The descendant of autotile.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
    • Wayland
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  12. FancyWM icon
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    FancyWM is a dynamic tiling window manager for Microsoft Windows.

    34 FancyWM alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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