dwl Alternatives

Alternatives list

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   Japokwm

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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. 🚀

   75 Japokwm alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (BSD-2-Clause)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

   

   

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   Xmonad

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   xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell. In a normal WM, you spend half your time aligning and searching for windows. xmonad makes work easier, by automating this.

   Cost / License

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

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Linux
   • X11
   • Haskell

   

   

   

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   Emerald Theme Manager

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   The Emerald Theme Manager allows you to install, edit and switch between Emerald themes. In order for it to work, select Emerald as your window decorator. You will also need to enable the Window Decorations plugin (via CCSM).

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Debian
   • Ubuntu
   • BSD

   

   

   

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   bug.n

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

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Windows

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   SwayFX

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   Sway is an incredible window manager, and certainly one of the most well established wayland window managers. However, it is restricted to only include the functionality that existed in i3. This fork ditches the simple wlr_renderer, and replaces it with our fx_renderer, capable...

   75 SwayFX alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Window Manager
   • Wayland Compositor

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Arch Linux
   • Gentoo Linux
   • Fedora
   • Nix Package Manager
   • Sway
   • FreeBSD
   • Wayland

   

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   spectrwm

    11 likes

   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.

   77 spectrwm alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Linux
   • BSD

   

   

   

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   mangowc

    1 like

   wayland compositor base wlroots and scenefx(dwm but wayland).

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Wayland Compositor

   Platforms

   • Wayland
   • Linux

   

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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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    term.everything

     1 like

    Run any GUI app in the terminal?.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (AGPL-3.0)

    Application type

    • Wayland Compositor

    Platforms

    • Linux

    

    

    

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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:

    33 Labwc alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

    Application typeApplication types

    • Window Manager
    • Wayland Compositor

    Platforms

    • Linux

    

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    Gnome Mutter

     1 like

    Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
    • Wayland

    

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