34 Like i3 Good alternative? YES NO i3 is a dynamic tiling window manager with clean, readable and documented code, featuring extended Xinerama support, usage of libxcb instead of xlib and several... Free Open Source Linux BSD No features added Add a feature
17 Like awesome Good alternative? YES NO awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast, extensible and licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license. It is... Free Open Source Linux BSD No features added Add a feature
13 Like Lumina Desktop Environment Alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Linux BSD PC-BSD No features added Add a feature
9 Like Amethyst Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac No features added Add a feature
6 Like Bluetile Good alternative? YES NO Bluetile is a tiling window manager for Linux, designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment. It provides both a traditional, stacking layout mode as well as... Free Open Source Linux Snap windows Add a feature
11 Like dwm Good alternative? YES NO dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts. All of the layouts can be applied dynamically, optimising the... Free Open Source Linux BSD No features added Add a feature
2 Like Sway Good alternative? YES NO Sway is a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager, but for Wayland instead of X11. Free Open Source Linux No features added Add a feature
25 Like Fluxbox Good alternative? YES NO Fluxbox is a windowmanager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. It is very light on resources and easy to handle but yet full of features to make an easy... Free Open Source Linux BSD No features added Add a feature
11 Like Xmonad Good alternative? YES NO xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell. In a normal WM, you spend half your time aligning and searching for windows.... Free Open Source Mac Linux No features added Add a feature
5 Like spectrwm Good alternative? YES NO spectrwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff.... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Lightweight Add a feature
3 Like Phoenix Good alternative? YES NO Phoenix is a lightweight OS X window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript. You can also easily use languages which compile to JavaScript such as CoffeeScript.... Free Open Source Mac GitHub Lightweight Add a feature
1 Like herbstluftwm Good alternative? YES NO herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib. Free Open Source Linux BSD No features added Add a feature
4 Like wmii Good alternative? YES NO wmii is a small, dynamic window manager for X11. It is scriptable, has a 9p filesystem interface and supports classic and tiling (acme-like) window management. It aims... Free Open Source Linux No features added Add a feature
1 Like bspwm Good alternative? YES NO A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning. Free Open Source Linux No features added Add a feature
3 Like pekwm Good alternative? YES NO pekwm is a window manager that once up on a time was based on the aewm++ window manager, but it has evolved enough that it no longer resembles aewm++ at all. It has a... Free Open Source Linux Lightweight Add a feature
