Fluxbox Alternatives

Alternatives list

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   Labwc

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   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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   Cagebreak

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   A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison.

   54 Cagebreak alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Wayland

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   MouseTiler

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   The fastest, simplest tiler for KDE Plasma 6+ that gives you full freedom at your fingertip. No need to remember dozens of keyboard shortcuts or be limited by a fixed tile layout.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • KDE Plasma

   

   

   

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   Cortile

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   Linux auto tiling manager with hot corner support for Openbox, Fluxbox, IceWM, Xfwm, KWin, Marco, Muffin, Mutter and other EWMH compliant window managers using the X11 window system.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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   Rift

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   Rift is a tiling window manager for macOS that focuses on performance and usability.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Mac

   

   

   

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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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   flwm

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   The Fast Light Window Manager is a small stacking FLTK-based window manager written in C++ and available for redistribution under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • BSD

   

   

   

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    Lumina Desktop Environment

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Desktop Environment

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PC-BSD

    

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    PyTyle

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    PyTyle is an extremely versatile and extensible tiling manager that is meant to be used on top of EWMH window managers. Its feature set was modeled after the basic tiling features of XMonad.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • Linux

    

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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

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux

    

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    chadwm

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    Making dwm as beautiful as possible!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Origin

    • India

    Platforms

    • Linux

    • India

    

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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

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • FreeBSD

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