i3 Alternatives

Alternatives list

1. C

   C

   Cagebreak

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   A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison.

   54 Cagebreak alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Wayland

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   PyTyle

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   PyTyle is an extremely versatile and extensible tiling manager that is meant to be used on top of EWMH window managers. Its feature set was modeled after the basic tiling features of XMonad.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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   Cortile

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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 (MIT)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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   strataWM

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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 (GPL-3.0)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Window Manager
   • Wayland Compositor

   Platforms

   • Wayland
   • Linux

   

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6. B

   B

   Blackbox WM

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   Blackbox is an original window manager, sharing no code with any others. It's designed to be fairly small and minimal, making it particularly suited to less powerful computers. It doesn't support images, other than generated gradients, but it does support multiple...

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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8. W

   W

   Weston

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   Weston is a Wayland compositor designed for correctness, reliability, predictability, and performance.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Window Manager
   • Wayland Compositor

   Origin

   • International

   Platforms

   • Linux

   • Global

   

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   W

   

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   Astur

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   Tiling window manager for Windows with Hyprland-style Alt-drag, master-stack tiling, and 9 workspaces. Single Rust EXE. komorebi/GlazeWM alternative. Silky Smooth Animations.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

   Origin

   • Australia

   Platforms

   • Windows

   • Australia

   

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    flwm

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    

    

    

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11. 

    

    Amethyst Windows

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    Automatic tiling window manager for Windows 10.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows

    

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    AeroSpace

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    AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS.

    60 AeroSpace alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • Mac

    

    

    

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13. 

    

    mangowc

     1 like

    wayland compositor base wlroots and scenefx(dwm but wayland).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Wayland Compositor

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux

    

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    Polonium

     1 like

    An autotile manager for Plasma 6. An (unofficial) spiritual successor to Bismuth built on KWin 6. The descendant of autotile.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application typeApplication types

    • Window Manager
    • Wayland Compositor

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
    • Wayland

    

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