Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library.
herbstluftwm Alternatives
herbstluftwm is described as 'Manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to herbstluftwm for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Mac and X11 apps. The best herbstluftwm alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like herbstluftwm are Sway, niri, i3 and Openbox.
Alternatives list
- 68 Gnome Mutter alternatives
- 55 Whim alternatives
Whim is a hackable, pluggable and scriptable dynamic window manager for Windows 10 and 11, built using WinUI 3, .NET, and C# scripting.

Phoenix is a lightweight OS X window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript. You can also easily use languages which compile to JavaScript such as CoffeeScript. Phoenix aims for efficiency and a very small footprint.

- 59 WMFS² alternatives
WMFS² is a lightweight and highly configurable tiling window manager for X written in C. WMFS² is a free software distributed under the BSD license. It can be driven from keyboard or mouse and its configuration stands in one text file, easily understandable.




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.

A versatile and customizable window manager / Wayland compositor, currently in development and actively seeking contributions from the community.


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- 51 Superior X Window Manager alternatives
Window manager for X inspired by DWM, i3, and other tiling window managers. Windows are assigned to tags, and are automatically arranged on the screen in a stacked layout making the most of your monitor.
- 64 StumpWM alternatives
StumpWM is a tiling, keyboard driven X11 Window Manager written and scriptable in Common Lisp. StumpWM attempts to be customizable yet visually minimal. There are no window decorations, no icons, and no buttons.



- 51 Wmderland alternatives
Heavily Inspired by i3wm. Wmderland aims to simplify the core functionalities of i3wm, and bundle in the essential features required for a modern but minimal Tiling Window Manager.

- 60 wio alternatives
Wio is a Wayland compositor for Linux & FreeBSD which has a similar look & feel to plan9's rio.





















