MangoWM Alternatives

MangoWM is described as 'Practical and powerful Wayland compositor (dwm but wayland)' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to MangoWM for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, Mac, BSD and FreeBSD apps. The best MangoWM alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MangoWM are niri, Sway, GlazeWM and river.

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hikari
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hikari [ja. Light] is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Platforms
Linux
BSD
+2
Good alternative?Is hikari a good alternative to MangoWM?
term.everything
1 like
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Cost / License
Free
Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Application type
Wayland Compositor
Platforms
Linux
+1
Good alternative?Is term.everything a good alternative to MangoWM?
Labwc
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Labwc stands for Lab Wayland Compositor, where lab can mean any of the following:
31 Labwc alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application typeApplication types
Window Manager
Wayland Compositor
Platforms
Linux
Good alternative?Is Labwc a good alternative to MangoWM?
Gnome Mutter
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Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application type
Window Manager
Origin
United States
Platforms
Linux
GNOME
Wayland
Good alternative?Is Gnome Mutter a good alternative to MangoWM?
doWM
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doWM is a beautiful floating and tiling window manager for X11 completely written in golang.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Window Manager
Platforms
X11
Linux
BSD
+6
Good alternative?Is doWM a good alternative to MangoWM?
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Waybox
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An openbox clone on Wayland (WIP).
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Application typeApplication types
Window Manager
Wayland Compositor
Platforms
Linux
Openbox
Wayland
W
Good alternative?Is Waybox a good alternative to MangoWM?
Pinnacle
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Pinnacle is a Wayland compositor built in Rust using Smithay. It's my attempt at creating something like AwesomeWM for Wayland.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Window Manager
Platforms
Linux
Wayland
Good alternative?Is Pinnacle a good alternative to MangoWM?
miracle-wm
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A Wayland compositor based on Mir. It features a tiling window manager at its core, very much in the style of i3 and sway. The intention is to build a compositor that is flashier and more feature-rich than either of those compositors, like swayfx.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Window Manager
Origin
United States
Platforms
Linux
Wayland
United States
Good alternative?Is miracle-wm a good alternative to MangoWM?
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
Good alternative?Is Polonium a good alternative to MangoWM?
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D
dwl
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dwl is a compact, hackable compositor for Wayland based on wlroots. It is intended to fill the same space in the Wayland world that dwm does in X11, primarily in terms of functionality, and secondarily in terms of philosophy. Like dwm, dwl is:
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Wayland Compositor
Platforms
Linux
Wayland
+5
D
Good alternative?Is dwl a good alternative to MangoWM?
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V
Vivarium
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A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots, with desktop semantics inspired by xmonad.
78 Vivarium alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Window Manager
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Linux
Wayland
V
Good alternative?Is Vivarium a good alternative to MangoWM?
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S
Superior X Window Manager
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Window manager for X inspired by DWM, i3, and other tiling window managers. Windows are assigned to tags, and are automatically arranged on the screen in a stacked layout making the most of your monitor.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Window Manager
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Linux
X11
S
Good alternative?Is this a good alternative to MangoWM?