Whim Alternatives

Whim is described as 'Hackable, pluggable and scriptable dynamic window manager for Windows 10 and 11, built using WinUI 3, .NET, and C# scripting' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Whim for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac and Wayland apps. The best Whim alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Whim are niri, i3, Sway and Openbox.

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  1. spectrwm icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  3. wmii icon
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    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

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4.  1 like
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    Window manager for windows written purely in C# thats simple, lightweight and portable.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. JWM icon
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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 .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6.  12 likes
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    bug.n is a tiling window manager add-on for Microsoft Windows. It is written in the scripting language AutoHotkey.

    86 bug.n alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Stack Window Manager With Manual Grid Tiling Layout Extended Desktop Area Left Hand Keyboard + Right Hand Mouse.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • GridWM (Grid Window Manager) is the most popular commercial alternative to Whim.

    • GridWM (Grid Window Manager) is Paid and ProprietaryWhim is Free and Open Source
  8. workspacer icon
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    workspacer is a tiling window manager for Windows 10, similar in style and function to common unix tiling window managers (dwm, i3, xmonad).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. LeftWM icon
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    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. herbstluftwm icon
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    herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  11. Ratpoison icon
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    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 non-overlapping frames. All windows are kept maximized inside their frames to take full advantage of your...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • X11
     
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