strataWM Alternatives

strataWM is described as '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' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to strataWM for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Wayland, Mac and Windows apps. The best strataWM alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like strataWM are niri, Sway, i3 and Openbox.

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    Mahogany is a tiling window manager for Wayland modeled after StumpWM. While it is not a drop-in replacement for StumpWM, StumpWM users should be very comfortable with Mahogany. Its planned features are:

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    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
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    A Wayland compositor.

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    • Linux
    • Rust
    • Wayland
     
  3. subtle is a manual tiling window manager with a rather uncommon approach of tiling: Instead of relying on predefined layouts, subtle divides the screen into a grid with customizeable slots (called gravities).

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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

    60 Weston alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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

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    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
     
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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.

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    • Linux
     
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