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, Wayland, BSD, Mac and Windows apps. The best bspwm alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like bspwm are niri, i3, Sway and Openbox.

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  1. StumpWM icon
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    StumpWM is a tiling, keyboard driven X11 Window Manager written and scriptable in Common Lisp. StumpWM attempts to be customizable yet visually minimal. There are no window decorations, no icons, and no buttons.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Wio is a Wayland compositor for Linux & FreeBSD which has a similar look & feel to plan9's rio.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
     
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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

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Window manager for X inspired by DWM, i3, and other tiling window managers. Windows are assigned to tags, and are automatically arranged on the screen in a stacked layout making the most of your monitor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • X11
     
  5. Cortile icon
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    Linux auto tiling manager with hot corner support for Openbox, Fluxbox, IceWM, Xfwm, KWin, Marco, Muffin, Mutter and other EWMH compliant window managers using the X11 window system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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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

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
  7. Xlambda icon
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    Xlambda is an X window manager that is extensible in Guile.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. PaperWM icon
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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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
     
  9. sxwm icon
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    tiling window managers dont have to be difficult.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • X11
     
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    Making dwm as beautiful as possible!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. MagmaWM icon
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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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
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