A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor (forked from dwl) that makes it a breeze to create custom layouts with a simple configuration. 🚀



awesome is described as 'Highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast, extensible and licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to awesome for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Mac and Windows apps. The best awesome alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like awesome are i3, Sway, niri and Loop - Window Management.
A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor (forked from dwl) that makes it a breeze to create custom layouts with a simple configuration. 🚀



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