Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- Openbox
- Wayland
river Alternatives
river is described as 'Dynamic tiling Wayland compositor built in Zig with Master&Stack layout, tag-based window organization, and XWayland compatibility' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to river for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, FreeBSD, Gentoo and Fedora apps. The best river alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like river are niri, Sway, GlazeWM and SwayFX.
Alternatives list
Pinnacle is a Wayland compositor built in Rust using Smithay. It's my attempt at creating something like AwesomeWM for Wayland.
- 65 miracle-wm alternatives
A Wayland compositor based on Mir. It features a tiling window manager at its core, very much in the style of i3 and sway. The intention is to build a compositor that is flashier and more feature-rich than either of those compositors, like swayfx.
dwl is a compact, hackable compositor for Wayland based on wlroots. It is intended to fill the same space in the Wayland world that dwm does in X11, primarily in terms of functionality, and secondarily in terms of philosophy. Like dwm, dwl is:
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An autotile manager for Plasma 6. An (unofficial) spiritual successor to Bismuth built on KWin 6. The descendant of autotile.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- KDE
- Wayland
A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots, with desktop semantics inspired by xmonad.
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.
AeroSpace is the most popular Mac alternative to river.
- AeroSpace is Free and Open Source
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