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niri Alternatives
niri is described as 'Windows are arranged in columns on an infinite strip going to the right. Opening a new window never causes existing windows to resize' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to niri for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Mac and Windows apps. The best niri alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like niri are Sway, i3, Openbox and GlazeWM.
Alternatives list
Left is a tiling window manager written in rust for stability and performance. The core of left is designed to do one thing and one thing well. Be a window manager. Because you probably want more than just a black screen LeftWM is built around the concept of theming.
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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.
69 Ratpoison alternativesRatpoison is a simple window manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no rodent dependence. The screen can be split into non-overlapping frames. All windows are kept maximized inside their frames to take full advantage of your...
Lumina is a lightweight, BSD licensed, standards-compliant desktop environment based upon Qt and Fluxbox. It is being developed on PC-BSD, and is being packaged for distribution on the PC-BSD package repository as well.
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 (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Linux
- Wayland
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i3-gaps is a fork of i3wm, a tiling window manager for X11. It is kept up to date with upstream, adding a few additional features such as gaps between windows.
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