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IceWM Alternatives
IceWM is described as 'Window Manager for X Window System. It is fast and memory-efficient, and it provides many different looks including Windows'95, OS/2 Warp 3,4, Motif' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to IceWM for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Mac and X11 apps. The best IceWM alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like IceWM are Sway, niri, LXDE and i3.
Alternatives list
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...
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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.
Cage is a kiosk compositor for Wayland. A kiosk is a window manager (in the X11 world) or compositor (in the Wayland world) that is designed for a user experience wherein user interaction and activities outside the scope of the running application are prevented.
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- Open Source (MIT)
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A versatile and customizable window manager / Wayland compositor, currently in development and actively seeking contributions from the community.
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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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