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.



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.
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.



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).

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



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.