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.

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An autotile manager for Plasma 6. An (unofficial) spiritual successor to Bismuth built on KWin 6. The descendant of autotile.

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Polonium alternatives page was last updated Jul 9, 2024
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  1. hikari icon

    hikari

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

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    hikari screenshot 1

    hikari Features

    1.  Tiling Window Manager

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  2. i3-gaps icon

    i3-gaps

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    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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    i3-gaps screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    i3-gaps has been merged into i3 icon i3.

    i3-gaps Features

    1.  Tiling Window Manager

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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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    PyTyle screenshot 1

    PyTyle Features

    1.  Window organizer
    2.  Tiling Window Manager

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    Bluetile

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    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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Bluetile screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    The last commit on this software is ten years ago and the GNOME desktop has moved on. Notably, it is now difficult to replace the default window manager in GNOME.

    Bluetile Features

    1.  Snap windows

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    pekwm

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    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...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    pekwm screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

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    Lumina Desktop Environment

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    Lumina is a lightweight, BSD licensed, standards-compliant desktop environment based upon Qt and Fluxbox. It is being developed on PC-BSD, and is being packaged for distribution on the PC-BSD package repository as well.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PC-BSD

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    flwm

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    The Fast Light Window Manager is a small stacking FLTK-based window manager written in C++ and available for redistribution under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    flwm screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Minimalistic

    Features

    1.  X server

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  10. Phoenix icon

    Phoenix

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    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.

    63 Phoenix alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Phoenix screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

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    Sawfish

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    Sawfish is an extensible window manager using a Lisp-based scripting language. Its policy is very minimal compared to most window managers. Its aim is simply to manage windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Sawfish screenshot 1

    Sawfish Features

    1.  Support for scripting

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  12. Vivarium

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

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Vivarium screenshot 1

    Vivarium Features

    1.  Wayland Support
    2.  Tiling
    3.  Tiling Window Manager

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  13. Blackbox WM

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    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...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Blackbox WM screenshot 1

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    Whim

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    Whim is a hackable, pluggable and scriptable dynamic window manager for Windows 10 and 11, built using WinUI 3, .NET, and C# scripting.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • SE flagSweden
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Whim screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Support for scripting
    2.  No registration required
    3.  Dark Mode

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