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 Jul 9, 2024
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  1. Vivarium

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    A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots, with desktop semantics inspired by xmonad.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Vivarium screenshot 1

    Vivarium Features

    1.  Wayland Support
    2.  Tiling
    3.  Tiling Window Manager

    Vivarium VS Bluetile

     

  2. Blackbox WM

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    Blackbox is an original window manager, sharing no code with any others. It's designed to be fairly small and minimal, making it particularly suited to less powerful computers. It doesn't support images, other than generated gradients, but it does support multiple...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Blackbox WM screenshot 1

    Blackbox WM VS Bluetile

     

  4. Moksha

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    Fork of Enlightenment version 17 (commonly called E17) used as the main desktop environment on Bodhi Linux

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Moksha VS Bluetile

     
  5. Gnome Mutter icon

    Gnome Mutter

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    Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
    • Wayland

    Gnome Mutter Features

    1.  Wayland Support

    Gnome Mutter VS Bluetile

     
  6. Whim icon

    Whim

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    Whim is a hackable, pluggable and scriptable dynamic window manager for Windows 10 and 11, built using WinUI 3, .NET, and C# scripting.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • SE flagSweden
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Whim screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Support for scripting
    2.  No registration required
    3.  Dark Mode

    Whim VS Bluetile

     
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    WMFS²

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    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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Source: zachsnyder.deviantart.com/art/My-WMFS-9-30-2011-260849127
    Discontinued

    The last update on the GitHub repo (https://github.com/xorg62/wmfs) was on August 14th, 2013. The official website is no longer accessible, but has been archived by Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20141218125810/http://wmfs.info/

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Minimalistic

    Features

    1.  Tiling

    WMFS² VS Bluetile

     
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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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux
    strataWM screenshot 1

    strataWM Features

    1.  Wayland Support

    strataWM VS Bluetile

     
  10. PaperWM icon

    PaperWM

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    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.

    51 PaperWM alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
    Window switching and tiling.

    PaperWM Features

    1.  Tiling
    2.  Tiling Window Manager
    3.  Window Switching
    4.  Tiling Layouts

    PaperWM VS Bluetile

     
  11. Emerald Theme Manager icon

    Emerald Theme Manager

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    The Emerald Theme Manager allows you to install, edit and switch between Emerald themes. In order for it to work, select Emerald as your window decorator. You will also need to enable the Window Decorations plugin (via CCSM).

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Debian
    • Ubuntu
    • BSD
    Emerald Theme Manager screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused
    2.  Lightweight
    3.  Support for Themes
    4.  Customizable

    Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  No Tracking
    3.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    4.  No registration required
    5.  Support for scripting
    6.  Dark Mode
    7.  Transparency
    8.  Make window transparent

    Emerald Theme Manager VS Bluetile

     

  12. Wmderland

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    Heavily Inspired by i3wm. Wmderland aims to simplify the core functionalities of i3wm, and bundle in the essential features required for a modern but minimal Tiling Window Manager.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Wmderland screenshot 1

    Wmderland Features

    1.  Tiling Layouts
    2.  Tiling
    3.  Tiling Window Manager

    Wmderland VS Bluetile

     
  13. Cage: the Wayland kiosk icon

    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.

    58 Cage: the Wayland kiosk alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

    Cage: the Wayland kiosk Features

    1.  Wayland Support
    2.  Compositor

    Cage: the Wayland kiosk VS Bluetile

     
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    wtftw

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    Window Tiling For The Win (wtftw) is a tiling window manager written in Rust.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    wtftw screenshot 1

    wtftw Features

    1.  Tiling
    2.  Tiling Window Manager

    wtftw VS Bluetile

     
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