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.
Mahogany Alternatives
Mahogany is described as '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:' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Mahogany for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Wayland, Mac and Windows apps. The best Mahogany alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Mahogany are niri, i3, Sway and Openbox.
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.
subtle is a manual tiling window manager with a rather uncommon approach of tiling: Instead of relying on predefined layouts, subtle divides the screen into a grid with customizeable slots (called gravities).
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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
- Wayland
