Blackbox WM Alternatives

Alternatives list

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   MagmaWM

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   A versatile and customizable window manager / Wayland compositor, currently in development and actively seeking contributions from the community.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Wayland

   

   

   

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   sxwm

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   tiling window managers dont have to be difficult.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Origin

   • United Kingdom

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • X11

   • United Kingdom

   

   

   

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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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   Cage: the Wayland kiosk

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   Cage is a kiosk compositor for Wayland. A kiosk is a window manager (in the X11 world) or compositor (in the Wayland world) that is designed for a user experience wherein user interaction and activities outside the scope of the running application are prevented.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Wayland

   

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   Jay

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   A Wayland compositor.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Rust
   • Wayland

   

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   Mahogany

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   Mahogany is a tiling window manager for Wayland modeled after StumpWM. While it is not a drop-in replacement for StumpWM, StumpWM users should be very comfortable with Mahogany. Its planned features are:

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Window Manager
   • Wayland Compositor

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Wayland

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