i3-gaps Alternatives

i3-gaps has been discontinued. Similar apps include Hyprland, which is free and open source. Other options are niri, i3, Sway and awesome. There's no shortage of Window Managers like i3-gaps, with more than 50 alternatives for Linux, Mac and Windows.

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  1. 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.

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    • Wayland
    • Linux
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  2. Konveyor icon
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    Scrolling column tiling for KDE Plasma.

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    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
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    Weston is a Wayland compositor designed for correctness, reliability, predictability, and performance.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Linux
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  4. A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison.

    54 Cagebreak alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
    • Wayland
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  6. StumpWM icon
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    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.

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    • Linux
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  7. PaperWM icon
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    PaperWM is an experimental Gnome Shell extension providing scrollable tiling of windows and per monitor workspaces. It's inspired by paper notebooks and tiling window managers. Supports Gnome Shell 3.28 and 3.30 on X11 and wayland.

    52 PaperWM alternatives

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    • Linux
    • GNOME
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    A scrollable, tiling window manager for MacOS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
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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:

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    • Linux
    • Wayland
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    A Wayland compositor.

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    • Linux
    • Rust
    • Wayland
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  11. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
    • X11
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    Making dwm as beautiful as possible!.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Linux
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