GridWM (Grid Window Manager) Alternatives

GridWM (Grid Window Manager) is described as 'Stack Window Manager With Manual Grid Tiling Layout Extended Desktop Area Left Hand Keyboard + Right Hand Mouse' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to GridWM (Grid Window Manager) for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Wayland, BSD and FreeBSD apps. The best GridWM (Grid Window Manager) alternative is Microsoft PowerToys, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GridWM (Grid Window Manager) are Hyprland, niri, i3 and Sway.

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  1. Taekwindow icon
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    Taekwindow is a simple, lightweight and free Windows program that allows you to move and resize windows by dragging them with the Alt key, similar to many X11 window managers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Chameleon Window Manager will allow you to control the windows of your programs using customizable buttons added to the title bars of the windows (Always on Top, Minimize to Tray, Minimize to Caption, Specify Transparency, Position window at left/right of screen).

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
     
  3. FancyWM icon
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    FancyWM is a dynamic tiling window manager for Microsoft Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  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. Whim icon
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    Whim is a hackable, pluggable and scriptable dynamic window manager for Windows 10 and 11, built using WinUI 3, .NET, and C# scripting.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Tabame icon
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    Tabame is an alternative to Windows Taskbar. It also contains great tools such as advanced Hotkeys, QuickRun, Trktivity and Wizardly.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Mahogany is a tiling window manager for Wayland modeled after StumpWM. While it is not a drop-in replacement for StumpWM, StumpWM users should be very comfortable with Mahogany. Its planned features are:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
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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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
     
  9. strataWM icon
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    Strata is a cutting-edge, robust and sleek Wayland compositor written in Rust using the Smithay library. It is designed to be minimal and flexible yet customizable. Strata is configured in Lua, a lightweight, high-level, multi-paradigm programming language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux
     
  10. Cortile icon
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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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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