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, Wayland, BSD, Mac and Windows apps. The best PaperDE alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PaperDE are niri, Sway, Compiz and i3.
Alternatives list
- 66 Phoenix alternatives
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.

WMFS² is a lightweight and highly configurable tiling window manager for X written in C. WMFS² is a free software distributed under the BSD license. It can be driven from keyboard or mouse and its configuration stands in one text file, easily understandable.




- 45 OmniWM alternatives
MacOS Niri and Hyprland inspired tiling window manager that's developer signed and notorized (safe for managed enterprise environments). Aiming for parity and extra innovation.
Native macOS Wayland compositor in Rust using Smithay, providing seamless Linux app streaming and display with OpenGL rendering, HiDPI Retina support, hardware acceleration, polished UI, server-side decorations, direct Wayland protocol, and zero VM overhead.




















