spectrwm Alternatives
spectrwm is described as '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' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to spectrwm for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Mac and Windows apps. The best spectrwm alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like spectrwm are i3, Sway, Openbox and awesome.
- Window Manager
- Free • Open Source
Pinnacle is a Wayland compositor built in Rust using Smithay. It's my attempt at creating something like AwesomeWM for Wayland.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- Wayland
Pinnacle Features
- 63 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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Wayland
- Linux
miracle-wm Features
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- Openbox
- Wayland
Waybox Features
An autotile manager for Plasma 6. An (unofficial) spiritual successor to Bismuth built on KWin 6. The descendant of autotile.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- KDE
- Wayland
Polonium Features
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:
dwl Features
A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor (forked from dwl) that makes it a breeze to create custom layouts with a simple configuration. 🚀
bug.n is a tiling window manager add-on for Microsoft Windows. It is written in the scripting language AutoHotkey.
- 64 Ratpoison alternatives
Ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no rodent dependence. The screen can be split into non-overlapping frames. All windows are kept maximized inside their frames to take full advantage of your...
- Discontinued
The latest version is from January 2023, and the GitHub repository is archived.
Amethyst Windows Features
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 Features
- 69 PyTyle alternatives
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.
PyTyle Features
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...