Openbox Alternatives
Openbox is described as 'highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support' and is a popular app in the OS & Utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Openbox for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Mac, Windows and PC-BSD. The best alternative is i3, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Openbox are awesome (Free, Open Source), Xmonad (Free, Open Source), Sway (Free, Open Source) and Amethyst (Free, Open Source).
- A dynamic tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii, and written in C. View 32 alternatives to i3
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
- BSD
- A dynamic window manager for the X Window System developed in the C and Lua programming languages. View 38 alternatives to awesome
- 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. View 35 alternatives to Xmonad
- Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11. View 31 alternatives to Sway
- Amethyst is a tiling window manager for Mac similar to the xmonad tiling window manager popular on Linux. View 46 alternatives to Amethyst
- dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts. View 25 alternatives to dwm
- Fluxbox is a window manager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. View 29 alternatives to Fluxbox
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
- BSD
- C++
- Bluetile is a tiling window manager for Linux, designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment. View 49 alternatives to Bluetile
- Window Maker is a free open-source window manager for the X Window System. View 23 alternatives to Window Maker
- Qtile is a full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written in Python. View 35 alternatives to qtile