GlazeWM Alternatives

GlazeWM is described as 'A tiling window manager for Windows inspired by i3 and Polybar' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to GlazeWM for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, Windows, BSD and FreeBSD apps. The best GlazeWM alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GlazeWM are niri, Sway, i3 and AquaSnap.

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    dwl is a compact, hackable compositor for Wayland based on wlroots. It is intended to fill the same space in the Wayland world that dwm does in X11, primarily in terms of functionality, and secondarily in terms of philosophy. Like dwm, dwl is:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
  2. hikari icon
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    hikari [ja. Light] is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  3. mangowc icon
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    wayland compositor base wlroots and scenefx(dwm but wayland).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux
     
  4. Gnome Mutter icon
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    Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
    • Wayland
     
  5. Pinnacle icon
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    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
  6. doWM icon
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    doWM is a beautiful floating and tiling window manager for X11 completely written in golang.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • X11
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  7. GridMove icon
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    GridMove - A window management tool that can quickly arrange your windows into desktop grids.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8.  Like
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    Making dwm as beautiful as possible!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots, with desktop semantics inspired by xmonad.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. snApp icon
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    snApp is a powerful window management utility, built for the Mac. At its core, it is powered by the award-winning Siri Shortcut, Snap. 

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
    • snApp is the most popular Mac alternative to GlazeWM.

    • snApp is Free and Open SourceGlazeWM is also Free and Open Source
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