SlideScroll Alternatives

Alternatives list

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   Amethyst Windows

    3 likes

   Automatic tiling window manager for Windows 10.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Since

   • Since 2021

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Windows

   

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   pekwm

    5 likes

   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...

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Since

   • Since 2011

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

   

   

   +2

   

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   Phoenix

    4 likes

   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.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Since

   • Since 2016

   Platforms

   • Mac

   

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5. B

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   Blackbox WM

    1 like

   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...

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Since

   • Since 2021

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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   B

   

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6. V

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   Vivarium

    1 like

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

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Since

   • Since 2021

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Wayland

   

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   V

   

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   WMFS²

    2 likes

   WMFS² is a lightweight and highly configurable tiling window manager for X written in C. WMFS² is a free software distributed under the BSD license. It can be driven from keyboard or mouse and its configuration stands in one text file, easily understandable.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Since

   • Since 2013

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

   

   

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   Cage: the Wayland kiosk

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   Cage is a kiosk compositor for Wayland. A kiosk is a window manager (in the X11 world) or compositor (in the Wayland world) that is designed for a user experience wherein user interaction and activities outside the scope of the running application are prevented.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Since

   • Since 2024

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Wayland

   

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    wtftw

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    Window Tiling For The Win (wtftw) is a tiling window manager written in Rust.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (BSD-3-Clause)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Since

    • Since 2019

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux

    

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11. C

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    Cagebreak

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    A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application typeApplication types

    • Window Manager
    • Wayland Compositor

    Since

    • Since 2024

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

    C

    

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    PaperWM

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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Since

    • Since 2019

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME

    

    

    

    +1

    

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    Xlambda

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Since

    • Since 2019

    Platforms

    • Linux

    

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14. W

    W

    Weston

     Like

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application typeApplication types

    • Window Manager
    • Wayland Compositor

    Origin

    • International

    Since

    • Since 2024

    Platforms

    • Linux

    • Global

    

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    W

    

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