flwm Alternatives
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 10 alternatives to flwm for Linux, BSD, C++, Mac and Windows. The best alternative is i3, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like flwm are Openbox (Free, Open Source), awesome (Free, Open Source), Xmonad (Free, Open Source) and bug.n (Free, Open Source).
- i3 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.
- Openbox is a highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support.
Discontinued
No actively developed anymore. Last commit was in 2015.
- awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast, extensible and licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license.
- 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. IRC channel: #xmonad@irc.libera.chat
- bug.n is a tiling window manager add-on for Microsoft Windows. It is written in the scripting language AutoHotkey.No screenshots yet
- A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning.
- 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.
- 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.
- pekwm is a window manager that once up on a time was based on the aewm++ window manager, but it has evolved enough that it no longer resembles aewm++ at all.
- JWM is a light-weight window manager for the X11 Window System. JWM is written in C and uses only Xlib at a minimum. Because of its small footprint, JWM makes a good window manager for older computers and less powerful systems, such as the...