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, Wayland, BSD, Windows and Mac apps. The best Polonium alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Polonium are niri, i3, Sway and GlazeWM.

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  1. StumpWM icon
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    StumpWM is a tiling, keyboard driven X11 Window Manager written and scriptable in Common Lisp. StumpWM attempts to be customizable yet visually minimal. There are no window decorations, no icons, and no buttons.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Xlambda is an X window manager that is extensible in Guile.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
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    Making dwm as beautiful as possible!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
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    Weston is a Wayland compositor designed for correctness, reliability, predictability, and performance.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison.

    55 Cagebreak alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
  6. PaperDE icon
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    A light-weight desktop environment based on Qt/Wayland and wayfire.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Qt
    • Wayland
     
  7. PaperWM icon
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    PaperWM is an experimental Gnome Shell extension providing scrollable tiling of windows and per monitor workspaces. It's inspired by paper notebooks and tiling window managers. Supports Gnome Shell 3.28 and 3.30 on X11 and wayland.

    51 PaperWM alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
     
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    Wio is a Wayland compositor for Linux & FreeBSD which has a similar look & feel to plan9's rio.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
     
  9. MagmaWM icon
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    A versatile and customizable window manager / Wayland compositor, currently in development and actively seeking contributions from the community.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
  10. strataWM icon
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    Strata is a cutting-edge, robust and sleek Wayland compositor written in Rust using the Smithay library. It is designed to be minimal and flexible yet customizable. Strata is configured in Lua, a lightweight, high-level, multi-paradigm programming language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux
     
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    Window manager for X inspired by DWM, i3, and other tiling window managers. Windows are assigned to tags, and are automatically arranged on the screen in a stacked layout making the most of your monitor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • X11
     
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    Way Cooler is a tiling Wayland window manager, written in Rust, configurable using Lua, and extendable with D-Bus.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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