bspwm Alternatives
bspwm is described as 'A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to bspwm for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Wayland, Mac and Windows apps. The best bspwm alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like bspwm are i3, Openbox, Sway and Sxmo.
- Window Manager
- Free • Open Source
- 7 likes97 yabai alternatives
yabai started as a C99 rewrite of chunkwm, originally supposed to be its first RC version.
yabai Features
- Customizable
- Automatic window tiling
- Tiling Layouts
- Tiling Window Manager
- Tiling
yabai VS bspwm
Is yabai a good alternative to bspwm? - 6 likes70 Wayfire alternatives
Wayfire is a 3D Wayland compositor, inspired by Compiz and based on wlroots. It aims to create a customizable, extendable and lightweight environment without sacrificing its appearance.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- FreeBSD
Wayfire Features
- Wayland Support
Wayfire VS bspwm
Is Wayfire a good alternative to bspwm? - 11 likes63 spectrwm alternatives
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. It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any configuration.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
spectrwm Features
- Minimalistic
spectrwm VS bspwm
Is spectrwm a good alternative to bspwm? - 9 likes63 wmii alternatives
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 to maintain a small and clean (read hackable and beautiful) codebase.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
wmii Features
- Tiling
- X server
wmii VS bspwm
Is wmii a good alternative to bspwm? - 5 likes64 JWM alternatives
JWM is a light-weight window manager for the X11 Window System. JWM is written in C and uses only Xlib at a minimum. Because of its small footprint, JWM makes a good window manager for older computers and less powerful systems, such as the .
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
JWM Features
- Lightweight
JWM VS bspwm
Is JWM a good alternative to bspwm? - 2 likes61 newm alternatives
newm is a Wayland compositor written with laptops and touchpads in mind. The idea is, instead of placing windows inside the small viewport (that is, the monitor) to arrange them along an arbitrarily large two-dimensional wall (generally without windows overlapping) and focus the...
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Wayland
newm Features
- No registration required
- Ad-free
- Lightweight
- Wayland Support
newm VS bspwm
Is newm a good alternative to bspwm? - 3 likes56 SwayFX alternatives
Sway is an incredible window manager, and certainly one of the most well established wayland window managers. However, it is restricted to only include the functionality that existed in i3. This fork ditches the simple wlr_renderer, and replaces it with our fx_renderer, capable...
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Arch Linux
- Gentoo Linux
- Fedora
- Nix Package Manager
- Sway
- FreeBSD
- Wayland
SwayFX Features
- No registration required
- No Tracking
- Compositor
- Wayland Support
- OPENGL
SwayFX VS bspwm
Is SwayFX a good alternative to bspwm? - 3 likes63 LeftWM alternatives
Left is a tiling window manager written in rust for stability and performance. The core of left is designed to do one thing and one thing well. Be a window manager. Because you probably want more than just a black screen LeftWM is built around the concept of theming.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
LeftWM Features
- Lightweight
- Support for Multiple Monitors
- Tiling Window Manager
- X server
LeftWM VS bspwm
Is LeftWM a good alternative to bspwm? License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Openbox
- Wayland
Waybox Features
- Wayland Support
Waybox VS bspwm
Is Waybox a good alternative to bspwm?- 1 like57 miracle-wm alternatives
A Wayland compositor based on Mir. It features a tiling window manager at its core, very much in the style of i3 and sway. The intention is to build a compositor that is flashier and more feature-rich than either of those compositors, like swayfx.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Wayland
- Linux
miracle-wm Features
- Wayland Support
- Tiling
- Tiling Window Manager
miracle-wm VS bspwm
Is miracle-wm a good alternative to bspwm? - 1 like53 Pinnacle alternatives
Pinnacle is a Wayland compositor built in Rust using Smithay. It's my attempt at creating something like AwesomeWM for Wayland.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Wayland
Pinnacle Features
- Compositor
- Rust
- Wayland Support
Pinnacle VS bspwm
Is Pinnacle a good alternative to bspwm? - 5 likes62 herbstluftwm alternatives
herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
herbstluftwm Features
- X server
- Tiling Window Manager
herbstluftwm VS bspwm
Is herbstluftwm a good alternative to bspwm?