yabai started as a C99 rewrite of chunkwm, originally supposed to be its first RC version.

Sway is described as 'Tiling Wayland Compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11. It works with your existing i3 configuration and supports most of i3's features, plus a few extras' and is a wayland compositor in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Sway for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Mac and Windows apps. The best Sway alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Sway are i3, SwayFX, awesome and GlazeWM.
yabai started as a C99 rewrite of chunkwm, originally supposed to be its first RC version.

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

Amethyst is a tiling window manager for Mac similar to the xmonad tiling window manager popular on Linux. Amethyst is written in Objective-C and has configurable shortcuts, multi-monitor support, multiple layouts, and the option to float certain applications.


Way Cooler is a tiling Wayland window manager, written in Rust, configurable using Lua, and extendable with D-Bus.


A versatile and customizable window manager / Wayland compositor, currently in development and actively seeking contributions from the community.




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:




Pinnacle is a Wayland compositor built in Rust using Smithay. It's my attempt at creating something like AwesomeWM for Wayland.





komorebi is a tiling window manager that works as an extension to Microsoft's Desktop Window Manager in Windows 10 and above.








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.


