StumpWM Alternatives

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

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  1. Ratpoison icon
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    Ratpoison

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    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...

    66 Ratpoison alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • X11

    Ratpoison Features

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  No registration required
    3.  Ad-free
    4.  No Tracking
    5.  Tiling
    6.  X server
    7.  Tiling Window Manager
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  2. hikari icon
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    hikari

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    hikari [ja. Light] is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.

    75 hikari alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    hikari Features

    1.  Tiling Window Manager
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  4. i3-gaps icon
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    i3-gaps

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    i3-gaps is a fork of i3wm, a tiling window manager for X11. It is kept up to date with upstream, adding a few additional features such as gaps between windows.

    48 i3-gaps alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    i3-gaps Features

    1.  Tiling Window Manager
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    Discontinued

    i3-gaps has been merged into i3 icon i3.

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    PyTyle

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    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.

    71 PyTyle alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    PyTyle Features

    1.  Window organizer
    2.  Tiling Window Manager
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  6. Amethyst Windows icon
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    Amethyst Windows

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    Automatic tiling window manager for Windows 10.

    90 Amethyst Windows alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Amethyst Windows Features

    1.  Window organizer
    2.  Tiling Window Manager
    3.  Tiling
    Discontinued

    The latest version is from January 2023, and the GitHub repository is archived.

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    pekwm

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    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...

    65 pekwm alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux

    pekwm Features

    1.  Lightweight
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  9. Bluetile icon
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    Bluetile

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    Bluetile is a tiling window manager for Linux, designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment. It provides both a traditional, stacking layout mode as well as tiling layouts where windows are arranged to use the entire screen without overlapping.

    89 Bluetile alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Bluetile Features

    1.  Snap windows
    Discontinued

    The last commit on this software is ten years ago and the GNOME desktop has moved on. Notably, it is now difficult to replace the default window manager in GNOME.

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    Sawfish

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    Sawfish is an extensible window manager using a Lisp-based scripting language. Its policy is very minimal compared to most window managers. Its aim is simply to manage windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible.

    55 Sawfish alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Sawfish Features

    1.  Support for scripting
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  11. Blackbox WM

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    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...

    66 Blackbox WM alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  12. Vivarium

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

    71 Vivarium alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Vivarium Features

    1.  Wayland Support
    2.  Tiling
    3.  Tiling Window Manager
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  13. Phoenix icon
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    Phoenix

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    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.

    65 Phoenix alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Phoenix Features

    1.  Lightweight
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    WMFS²

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    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.

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    Source: zachsnyder.deviantart.com/art/My-WMFS-9-30-2011-260849127

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    WMFS² Features

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Minimalistic
    3.  Tiling
    Source: http://wmfs.info/
    Source xenull.deviantart.com/art/WMFS-Norse-288868832
    Discontinued

    The last update on the GitHub repo (https://github.com/xorg62/wmfs) was on August 14th, 2013. The official website is no longer accessible, but has been archived by Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20141218125810/http://wmfs.info/

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