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 X11 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.
WMFS² is a lightweight and highly configurable tiling window manager for X written in C. WMFS² is a free software distributed under the BSD license. It can be driven from keyboard or mouse and its configuration stands in one text file, easily understandable.
Lumina is a lightweight, BSD licensed, standards-compliant desktop environment based upon Qt and Fluxbox. It is being developed on PC-BSD, and is being packaged for distribution on the PC-BSD package repository as well.
PaperWM is an experimental Gnome Shell extension providing scrollable tiling of windows and per monitor workspaces. It's inspired by paper notebooks and tiling window managers. Supports Gnome Shell 3.28 and 3.30 on X11 and wayland.
StumpWM is a tiling, keyboard driven X11 Window Manager written and scriptable in Common Lisp. StumpWM attempts to be customizable yet visually minimal. There are no window decorations, no icons, and no buttons.
An autotile manager for Plasma 6. An (unofficial) spiritual successor to Bismuth built on KWin 6. The descendant of autotile.
A versatile and customizable window manager / Wayland compositor, currently in development and actively seeking contributions from the community.
