Openbox Alternatives

Alternatives list

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   Way Cooler

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   Way Cooler is a tiling Wayland window manager, written in Rust, configurable using Lua, and extendable with D-Bus.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

   

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   hikari

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   hikari [ja. Light] is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.

   87 hikari alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • BSD

   

   

   

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   GridWM (Grid Window Manager)

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   Stack Window Manager With Manual Grid Tiling Layout Extended Desktop Area Left Hand Keyboard + Right Hand Mouse.

   Cost / License

   • Paid
   • Proprietary

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Windows

   

   

   

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   Cardboard (Wayland compositor)

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   Cardboard is a unique, scrollable tiling Wayland compositor designed with laptops in mind. Based on wlroots.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Wayland Compositor

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Wayland

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   Rift

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   Rift is a tiling window manager for macOS that focuses on performance and usability.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Mac

   

   

   

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   Pinnacle

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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.

   66 Pinnacle alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Wayland

   

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   PyTyle

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   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.

   76 PyTyle alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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    wtftw

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    Window Tiling For The Win (wtftw) is a tiling window manager written in Rust.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (BSD-3-Clause)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux

    

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    Bluetile

     8 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Origin

    • Germany
    • EU

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux

    • Germany
    • EU

    

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    MouseTiler

     2 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma

    

    

    

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    bug.n

     12 likes

    bug.n is a tiling window manager add-on for Microsoft Windows. It is written in the scripting language AutoHotkey.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • Windows

    B

    

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    GridWM (KDE Plasma)

     1 like

    Manual Grid Tiling Layout Of Stack Window Manager.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE

    

    

    

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