Windows are arranged in columns on an infinite strip going to the right. Opening a new window never causes existing windows to resize.
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flwm AlternativesWindow Managers and other similar apps like flwm
flwm is described as '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' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to flwm for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, X11 and Windows apps. The best flwm alternative is niri, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like flwm are i3, Openbox, awesome and Fluxbox.
Alternatives list
- 78 niri alternatives
80 i3 alternativesi3 is a dynamic tiling window manager with clean, readable and documented code, featuring extended Xinerama support, usage of libxcb instead of xlib and several improvements over wmii.
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75 Openbox alternativesOpenbox is a highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support.
awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast, extensible and licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license.
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Fluxbox is a window manager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. It is very light on resources and easy to handle but yet full of features to make an easy, and extremely fast, desktop experience. It is built using C++ and licensed under the MIT license.
A minimalist Linux smartphone environment that is truly yours to control. Sxmo, or Simple X Mobile, is a collection of simple and suckless X programs and scripts used together to create a fully functional mobile UI adhering to the Unix philosophy for the PinePhone and other...
IceWM is a Window Manager for X Window System. It is fast and memory-efficient, and it provides many different looks including Windows'95, OS/2 Warp 3,4, Motif.
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Cardboard is a unique, scrollable tiling Wayland compositor designed with laptops in mind. Based on wlroots.
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80 dwm alternativesdwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts. All of the layouts can be applied dynamically, optimising the environment for the application in use and the task performed.
83 Komorebi Window Manager alternativeskomorebi is a tiling window manager that works as an extension to Microsoft's Desktop Window Manager in Windows 10 and above.
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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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Arch Linux
- Gentoo Linux
- Fedora
- Nix Package Manager
- Sway
- FreeBSD
- Wayland
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