Cocoa-Way Alternatives

Alternatives list

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   hikari

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   hikari [ja. Light] is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.

   87 hikari alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • BSD

   

   

   

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   wmii

    9 likes

   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.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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   Labwc

    2 likes

   Labwc stands for Lab Wayland Compositor, where lab can mean any of the following:

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Window Manager
   • Wayland Compositor

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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   PaperDE

    1 like

   A light-weight desktop environment based on Qt/Wayland and wayfire.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Qt
   • Wayland

   

   

   

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   JWM

    5 likes

   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 .

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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   Umbriel

    1 like

   Umbriel is a Wayland compositor designed for daily use, with scrolling, dwindle, and master layouts, per-output workspaces, window rules, blur, shadows, and fluid animations.

   45 Umbriel alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Wayland Compositor

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Wayland

   

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   LeftWM

    3 likes

   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.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

   

   

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    herbstluftwm

     5 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    

    

    

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    Waybox

     1 like

    An openbox clone on Wayland (WIP).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application typeApplication types

    • Window Manager
    • Wayland Compositor

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Openbox
    • Wayland

    

    

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    Pinnacle

     1 like

    Pinnacle is a Wayland compositor built in Rust using Smithay. It's my attempt at creating something like AwesomeWM for Wayland.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

    

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    miracle-wm

     1 like

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

    • United States

    

    

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    Polonium

     1 like

    An autotile manager for Plasma 6. An (unofficial) spiritual successor to Bismuth built on KWin 6. The descendant of autotile.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application typeApplication types

    • Window Manager
    • Wayland Compositor

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
    • Wayland

    

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