
PaperDE Alternatives
PaperDE is described as 'A light-weight desktop environment based on Qt/Wayland and wayfire' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to PaperDE for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Wayland, Mac and Windows apps. The best PaperDE alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PaperDE are niri, Compiz, i3 and Sway.
Alternatives list

Picom is a standalone compositor for Xorg, suitable for use with window managers that do not provide compositing. Picom is a fork of compton, which is a fork of xcompmgr-dana, which in turn is a fork of xcompmgr.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
i3-gaps is a fork of i3wm, a tiling window manager for X11. It is kept up to date with upstream, adding a few additional features such as gaps between windows.


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.

Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Linux
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 much expanded feature-set, including window grouping (similar to ion, pwm, or fluxbox), autoproperties...


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A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots, with desktop semantics inspired by xmonad.

Blackbox is an original window manager, sharing no code with any others. It's designed to be fairly small and minimal, making it particularly suited to less powerful computers. It doesn't support images, other than generated gradients, but it does support multiple...

Xcompmgr is a simple composite manager capable of rendering drop shadows and primitive window transparency. Designed solely as a proof-of-concept, Xcompmgr is a lightweight alternative to Compiz and similar composite managers.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
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. Phoenix aims for efficiency and a very small footprint.

















