spectrwm Alternatives

Apps similar to spectrwm include Hyprland, which is free and open source. Other options are niri, Sway, i3 and Openbox. There's no shortage of Window Managers like spectrwm, with more than 50 alternatives for Linux, Mac and Windows.

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  1. mangowc icon
     1 like

    wayland compositor base wlroots and scenefx(dwm but wayland).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux
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  2. hikari icon
     2 likes

    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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  3. wmii icon
     9 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  4. Gnome Mutter icon
     1 like

    Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
    • Wayland
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  5. PaperDE icon
     1 like

    A light-weight desktop environment based on Qt/Wayland and wayfire.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Qt
    • Wayland
    Good alternative?
     
  6. JWM icon
     5 likes

    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 .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Good alternative?
     
  7. workspacer icon
     3 likes

    workspacer is a tiling window manager for Windows 10, similar in style and function to common unix tiling window managers (dwm, i3, xmonad).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Good alternative?
     
  8. Umbriel icon
     1 like

    Umbriel is a Wayland compositor designed for daily use, with scrolling, dwindle, and master layouts, per-output workspaces, window rules, blur, shadows, and fluid animations.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
    Good alternative?
     
  9. LeftWM icon
     3 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Good alternative?
     
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