Alternatives to bspwm for all platforms with any license

  • i3

    A dynamic tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii, and written in C.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

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  • Openbox

    Openbox is a highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support. The *box visual style is well known for its minimalistic...

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

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  • awesome

    A dynamic window manager for the X Window System developed in the C and Lua programming languages. .

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

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  • Fluxbox

    Fluxbox is a window manager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. It is very light on resources and easy to handle but yet full of features to make an easy...

    Free Open Source Linux BSD C++

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  • Xmonad

    xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell. In a normal WM, you spend half your time aligning and searching for windows....

    Free Open Source Mac Linux

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  • dwm

    dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts. All of the layouts can be applied dynamically, optimising the...

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

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  • Bluetile

    Bluetile is a tiling window manager for Linux, designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment. It provides both a traditional, stacking layout mode as well as...

    Free Open Source Linux

    Snap windows Add a feature

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  • Ratpoison

    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...

    Free Open Source Linux

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  • Phoenix

    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....

    Free Open Source Mac GitHub

    Lightweight Add a feature

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  • Sway

    Sway is a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager, but for Wayland instead of X11.

    Free Open Source Linux

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  • herbstluftwm

    herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

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  • wmii

    wmii is a small, dynamic window manager for X11. It is scriptable, has a 9p filesystem interface and supports classic and tiling (acme-like) window management. It aims...

    Free Open Source Linux

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  • WMFS²

    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...

    Free Open Source Linux

    Lightweight Minimalistic Add a feature

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    • 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/

  • spectrwm

    spectrwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff....

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD

    Minimalistic Add a feature

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