sxwm Alternatives

Apps similar to sxwm include Hyprland, which is free and open source. Other options are niri, i3, GlazeWM and Sway. Window Managers like sxwm are a crowded field, with more than 50 alternatives for Linux, Mac and Windows.

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sxwm alternatives page was last updated Jun 29, 2026

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Vivarium
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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
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Linux
Wayland
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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...
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Window Manager
Platforms
Linux
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Whim
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Whim is a hackable, pluggable and scriptable dynamic window manager for Windows 10 and 11, built using WinUI 3, .NET, and C# scripting.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Window Manager
Origin
Sweden
EU
Platforms
Windows
Sweden
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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.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Window Manager
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Linux
Good alternative?Is WMFS² a good alternative to sxwm?
MangoWM
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Practical and powerful Wayland compositor (dwm but wayland).
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Window Manager
Wayland Compositor
Platforms
Linux
BSD
Wayland
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