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Openbox Alternatives
Openbox is described as 'Highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support' and is a popular Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Openbox for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Mac and Windows apps. The best Openbox alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Openbox are i3, niri, Sway and awesome.
Alternatives list
Stack Window Manager With Manual Grid Tiling Layout Extended Desktop Area Left Hand Keyboard + Right Hand Mouse.
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hikari [ja. Light] is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
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Way Cooler is a tiling Wayland window manager, written in Rust, configurable using Lua, and extendable with D-Bus.
The fastest, simplest tiler for KDE Plasma 6+ that gives you full freedom at your fingertip. No need to remember dozens of keyboard shortcuts or be limited by a fixed tile layout.
Cardboard is a unique, scrollable tiling Wayland compositor designed with laptops in mind. Based on wlroots.
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Pinnacle is a Wayland compositor built in Rust using Smithay. It's my attempt at creating something like AwesomeWM for Wayland.
PyTyle is an extremely versatile and extensible tiling manager that is meant to be used on top of EWMH window managers. Its feature set was modeled after the basic tiling features of XMonad.
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 tiling layouts where windows are arranged to use the entire screen without overlapping.
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