Mahogany Alternatives

Apps similar to Mahogany include Hyprland, which is free and open source. Other options are niri, i3, Sway and Openbox. There's no shortage of Window Managers like Mahogany, with more than 50 alternatives for Linux, Mac and Windows.

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

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Linux
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    Wio is a Wayland compositor for Linux & FreeBSD which has a similar look & feel to plan9's rio.

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    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
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    A Wayland compositor.

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    • Linux
    • Rust
    • Wayland
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  5. 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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  6. 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).

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  7. 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 (MIT)

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    • Linux
    • Wayland
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