Bluetile Alternatives

Bluetile is described as 'Tiling window manager for Linux, designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment. It provides both a traditional, stacking layout mode as well as tiling layouts where windows are arranged to use the entire screen without overlapping' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Bluetile for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac and Wayland apps. The best Bluetile alternative is KDE Plasma, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Bluetile are GNOME, Xfce, Hyprland and COSMIC.

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Bluetile is a tiling window manager for Linux, designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment. It provides both a...

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Bluetile alternatives page was last updated May 5, 2024
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    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:

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

    dwl Features

    1.  Compositor
    2.  Tiling

    dwl VS Bluetile

     
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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...

    64 Ratpoison alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • X11

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  No Tracking
    4.  Tiling
    5.  X server
    6.  Tiling Window Manager

    Ratpoison VS Bluetile

     
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    KDE 3.5 fork. A computer desktop environment for Unix-like operating systems with a primary goal of retaining the function and form of traditional desktop computers.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Privacy focused
    3.  Customizable

    Features

    1.  No Tracking
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  No registration required
    4.  Support for Multiple Monitors
    5.  Dark Mode
    6.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions

    Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) VS Bluetile

     
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    Automatic tiling window manager for Windows 10.

    91 Amethyst Windows alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Discontinued

    The latest version is from January 2023, and the GitHub repository is archived.

    Amethyst Windows Features

    1.  Window organizer
    2.  Tiling Window Manager
    3.  Tiling

    Amethyst Windows VS Bluetile

     
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    hikari [ja. Light] is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    hikari Features

    1.  Tiling Window Manager

    hikari VS Bluetile

     
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    The Common Desktop Environment was created by a collaboration of Sun, HP, IBM, DEC, SCO, Fujitsu and Hitachi. Used on a selection of commercial UNIXs, it is now available as open-source software for the first time.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    CDE (Common Desktop Environment) VS Bluetile

     
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    PyTyle is an extremely versatile and extensible tiling manager that is meant to be used on top of EWMH window managers. Its feature set was modeled after the basic tiling features of XMonad.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    PyTyle Features

    1.  Window organizer
    2.  Tiling Window Manager

    PyTyle VS Bluetile

     
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    pekwm is a window manager that once up on a time was based on the aewm++ window manager, but it has evolved enough that it no longer resembles aewm++ at all. It has a much expanded feature-set, including window grouping (similar to ion, pwm, or fluxbox), autoproperties...

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    pekwm VS Bluetile

     
  9. EDE icon
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    Equinox Desktop Environment is simple and small graphical desktop environment for UNIX operating systems

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Solaris

    EDE Features

    1.  X server

    EDE VS Bluetile

     
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    Phoenix is a lightweight OS X window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript. You can also easily use languages which compile to JavaScript such as CoffeeScript. Phoenix aims for efficiency and a very small footprint.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Phoenix VS Bluetile

     
  11. Sawfish icon
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    Sawfish is an extensible window manager using a Lisp-based scripting language. Its policy is very minimal compared to most window managers. Its aim is simply to manage windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Sawfish Features

    1.  Support for scripting

    Sawfish VS Bluetile

     
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    Elokab Desktop Environment is an open-source independent desktop environment for Linux which uses QT libraries like KDE Plasma .

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Elokab Features

    1.  QT Based

    Elokab VS Bluetile

     
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