newm Alternatives

newm is described as 'A Wayland compositor specialized for laptops and touchpads, using a customizable 2D wall for intuitive window management with gesture controls' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to newm for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, FreeBSD, Arch Linux and Gentoo apps. The best newm alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like newm are niri, Sway, river and Wayfire.

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  2. Polonium icon

    Polonium

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    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 types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
    • Wayland
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  4. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
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  5. V

    Vivarium

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    A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots, with desktop semantics inspired by xmonad.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
    Vivarium screenshot 1
     
  6. Gnome Mutter icon

    Gnome Mutter

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    Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
    • Wayland
     
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