doWM Alternatives

Alternatives list

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   MagmaWM

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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 (MIT)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Since

   • Since 2024

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Wayland

   

   

   

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   wtftw

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   Window Tiling For The Win (wtftw) is a tiling window manager written in Rust.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (BSD-3-Clause)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Since

   • Since 2019

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Linux

   

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   StumpWM

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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 (GPL-2.0)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Origin

   • International

   Since

   • Since 2019

   Platforms

   • Linux

   • Global

   

   

   

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   Way Cooler

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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 (MIT)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Since

   • Since 2018

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

   

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   Jay

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   A Wayland compositor.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Since

   • Since 2024

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Rust
   • Wayland

   

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   paneru

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   A scrollable, tiling window manager for MacOS.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Since

   • Since 2026

   Platforms

   • Mac

   

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   wio

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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 (BSD-3-Clause)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Since

   • Since 2024

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • FreeBSD

   W

   

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    PaperWM

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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Since

    • Since 2019

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME

    

    

    

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    SlideScroll

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    free, open-source scrolling window manager (niri/PaperWM style) for macOS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Since

    • New

    Platforms

    • Mac

    

    

    

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