Pinnacle Alternatives

Pinnacle is described as 'Wayland compositor built in Rust using Smithay. It's my attempt at creating something like AwesomeWM for Wayland' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Pinnacle for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Wayland, Mac and X11 apps. The best Pinnacle alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Pinnacle are Sway, GlazeWM, i3 and Openbox.

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  1. MouseTiler icon
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    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.

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    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
     
  2. Sxmo icon
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    A minimalist Linux smartphone environment that is truly yours to control. Sxmo, or Simple X Mobile, is a collection of simple and suckless X programs and scripts used together to create a fully functional mobile UI adhering to the Unix philosophy for the PinePhone and other...

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    • postmarketOS
    • Linux Mobile
     
  3. Wayfire icon
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    Wayfire is a 3D Wayland compositor, inspired by Compiz and based on wlroots. It aims to create a customizable, extendable and lightweight environment without sacrificing its appearance.

    34 Wayfire alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
     
  4. IceWM icon
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    IceWM is a Window Manager for X Window System. It is fast and memory-efficient, and it provides many different looks including Windows'95, OS/2 Warp 3,4, Motif.

    74 IceWM alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  5. Amethyst icon
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    Amethyst is a tiling window manager for Mac similar to the xmonad tiling window manager popular on Linux. Amethyst is written in Objective-C and has configurable shortcuts, multi-monitor support, multiple layouts, and the option to float certain applications.

    117 Amethyst alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. yabai icon
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    yabai started as a C99 rewrite of chunkwm, originally supposed to be its first RC version.

    131 yabai alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. dwm icon
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    dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts. All of the layouts can be applied dynamically, optimising the environment for the application in use and the task performed.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  8. Xmonad icon
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    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. xmonad makes work easier, by automating this.

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • X11
    • Haskell
     
  9.  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

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. spectrwm icon
     11 likes

    spectrwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff. It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any configuration.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  11. hikari icon
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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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