StumpWM Alternatives

Alternatives list

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   bug.n

    12 likes

   bug.n is a tiling window manager add-on for Microsoft Windows. It is written in the scripting language AutoHotkey.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Windows

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   SwayFX

    3 likes

   Sway is an incredible window manager, and certainly one of the most well established wayland window managers. However, it is restricted to only include the functionality that existed in i3. This fork ditches the simple wlr_renderer, and replaces it with our fx_renderer, capable...

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Window Manager
   • Wayland Compositor

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Arch Linux
   • Gentoo Linux
   • Fedora
   • Nix Package Manager
   • Sway
   • FreeBSD
   • Wayland

   

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   spectrwm

    11 likes

   spectrwm is a 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.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Linux
   • BSD

   

   

   

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   hikari

    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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   wmii

    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

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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   Labwc

    2 likes

   Labwc stands for Lab Wayland Compositor, where lab can mean any of the following:

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Window Manager
   • Wayland Compositor

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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   Gnome Mutter

    1 like

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

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • GNOME
   • Wayland

   

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    JWM

     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

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • Linux

    

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    LeftWM

     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

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • Linux

    

    

    

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    herbstluftwm

     5 likes

    herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    

    

    

    +2

    

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    Ratpoison

     5 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • X11

    

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    doWM

     1 like

    doWM is a beautiful floating and tiling window manager for X11 completely written in golang.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • X11
    • Linux
    • BSD

    

    

    

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