niri Alternatives

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   Rift

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   Rift is a tiling window manager for macOS that focuses on performance and usability.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Mac

   

   

   

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   Wayfire

    8 likes

   Wayfire is a 3D Wayland compositor, inspired by Compiz and based on wlroots. It aims to create a customizable, extendable and lightweight environment without sacrificing its appearance.

   36 Wayfire alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Window Manager
   • Wayland Compositor

   Origin

   • Bulgaria
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • FreeBSD

   • Bulgaria
   • EU

   

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   Cardboard (Wayland compositor)

    Like

   Cardboard is a unique, scrollable tiling Wayland compositor designed with laptops in mind. Based on wlroots.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Wayland Compositor

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Wayland

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   river

    4 likes

   Wayland compositor featuring dynamic tiling and Master&Stack layout, offering configuration through riverctl tool with tag system for window management, customizable with rivertile and user layout generators, allowing flexible workspace setup without traditional workspaces.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Window Manager
   • Wayland Compositor

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

   

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   IceWM

    11 likes

   IceWM is a Window Manager for X Window System. It is fast and memory-efficient, and it provides many different looks including Windows'95, OS/2 Warp 3,4, Motif.

   76 IceWM alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • BSD

   

   

   

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   Amethyst

    22 likes

   Amethyst is a tiling window manager for Mac similar to the xmonad tiling window manager popular on Linux. Amethyst is written in Objective-C and has configurable shortcuts, multi-monitor support, multiple layouts, and the option to float certain applications.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac

   • United States

   

   

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   MangoWM

    2 likes

   Practical and powerful Wayland compositor (dwm but wayland).

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application typeApplication types

   • Window Manager
   • Wayland Compositor

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • BSD
   • Wayland

   

   

   

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    Soft-Machine

     2 likes

    Persistent, shareable cloud workspaces combine an i3-style browser layout with editor, terminal, chat, files, browser and canvas panels. Attach CPU, GPU or personal Linux machines, run coding agents, coordinate sessions, search history, and extend teams with plugins.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    • IDE

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)

    • United States

    

    

    

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    yabai

     7 likes

    yabai started as a C99 rewrite of chunkwm, originally supposed to be its first RC version.

    135 yabai alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Origin

    • Norway

    Platforms

    • Mac

    • Norway

    

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    Miriway

     2 likes

    Miriway is a starting point for creating a Wayland based desktop environment using Mir.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application type

    • Wayland Compositor

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

    

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    Komorebi Window Manager

     4 likes

    komorebi is a tiling window manager that works as an extension to Microsoft's Desktop Window Manager in Windows 10 and above.

    91 Komorebi Window Manager alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows

    

    

    

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    Japokwm

     2 likes

    A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor (forked from dwl) that makes it a breeze to create custom layouts with a simple configuration. 🚀

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (BSD-2-Clause)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux

    

    

    

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