awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast, extensible and licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license.
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Cardboard (Wayland compositor) Alternatives
Cardboard (Wayland compositor) is described as 'Cardboard is a unique, scrollable tiling Wayland compositor designed with laptops in mind. Based on wlroots' and is a wayland compositor in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Cardboard (Wayland compositor) for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Mac and Windows apps. The best Cardboard (Wayland compositor) alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Cardboard (Wayland compositor) are niri, Sway, i3 and Openbox.
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hikari [ja. Light] is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.
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- Linux
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110 Amethyst alternativesAmethyst is a tiling window manager for Mac similar to the xmonad tiling window manager popular on Linux. Amethyst is written in Objective-C and has configurable shortcuts, multi-monitor support, multiple layouts, and the option to float certain applications.
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A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor (forked from dwl) that makes it a breeze to create custom layouts with a simple configuration. 🚀
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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.
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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:
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74 IceWM alternativesIceWM is a Window Manager for X Window System. It is fast and memory-efficient, and it provides many different looks including Windows'95, OS/2 Warp 3,4, Motif.
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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 .
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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 environment for the application in use and the task performed.
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