Jay Alternatives
Jay is described as 'A Wayland compositor' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Jay for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Wayland, Mac and Windows apps. The best Jay alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Jay are i3, Sway, Openbox and awesome.
Alternatives list
Weston is a Wayland compositor designed for correctness, reliability, predictability, and performance.
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.
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:
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.
