dwm Alternatives

Alternatives list

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   PaperDE

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   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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   GridWM (Grid Window Manager)

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

   Cost / License

   • Paid
   • Proprietary

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Windows

   

   

   

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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.

   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.

   76 LeftWM alternatives

   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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   Ratpoison

    5 likes

   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...

   71 Ratpoison alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • X11

   

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   Lumina Desktop Environment

    13 likes

   Lumina is a lightweight, BSD licensed, standards-compliant desktop environment based upon Qt and Fluxbox. It is being developed on PC-BSD, and is being packaged for distribution on the PC-BSD package repository as well.

   58 Lumina Desktop Environment alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Desktop Environment

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • BSD
   • PC-BSD

   

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    doWM

     1 like

    doWM is a beautiful floating and tiling window manager for X11 completely written in golang.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • X11
    • 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.

    78 Polonium alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application typeApplication types

    • Window Manager
    • Wayland Compositor

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
    • Wayland

    

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