Polonium Alternatives
Polonium is described as 'An autotile manager for Plasma 6. An (unofficial) spiritual successor to Bismuth built on KWin 6. The descendant of autotile' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Polonium for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Wayland, Mac and Windows apps. The best Polonium alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Polonium are i3, Sway, Openbox and awesome.
- Window Manager
- Free • Open Source
Windows are arranged in columns on an infinite strip going to the right. Opening a new window never causes existing windows to resize.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Country of Origin
Russia
Platforms
- Linux
- Wayland
- 102 yabai alternatives
yabai started as a C99 rewrite of chunkwm, originally supposed to be its first RC version.
- 73 dwm alternatives
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.
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.
Xmonad Features
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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Country of Origin
Bulgaria
EU
Platforms
- Linux
- FreeBSD
Wayfire Features
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.
wmii is a small, dynamic window manager for X11. It is scriptable, has a 9p filesystem interface and supports classic and tiling (acme-like) window management. It aims to maintain a small and clean (read hackable and beautiful) codebase.
wmii Features
JWM is a light-weight window manager for the X11 Window System. JWM is written in C and uses only Xlib at a minimum. Because of its small footprint, JWM makes a good window manager for older computers and less powerful systems, such as the .
- 61 SwayFX alternatives
Sway is an incredible window manager, and certainly one of the most well established wayland window managers. However, it is restricted to only include the functionality that existed in i3. This fork ditches the simple wlr_renderer, and replaces it with our fx_renderer, capable...
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- Arch Linux
- Gentoo Linux
- Fedora
- Nix Package Manager
- Sway
- FreeBSD
- Wayland
SwayFX Features
Stack Window Manager With Manual Grid Tiling Layout Extended Desktop Area Left Hand Keyboard + Right Hand Mouse.
Left is a tiling window manager written in rust for stability and performance. The core of left is designed to do one thing and one thing well. Be a window manager. Because you probably want more than just a black screen LeftWM is built around the concept of theming.