Vivarium is described as 'A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots, with desktop semantics inspired by xmonad' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Vivarium for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Mac and X11 apps. The best Vivarium alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Vivarium are niri, GlazeWM, i3 and Sway.
An independent tiling Wayland compositor written in C++. Noteworthy features of Hyprland include dynamic tiling, tabbed windows, a clean and readable C++ code-base, and a custom renderer that provides window animations, rounded corners, and Dual-Kawase Blur on transparent windows.
Windows are arranged in columns on an infinite strip going to the right. Opening a new window never causes existing windows to resize.
i3 is a dynamic tiling window manager with clean, readable and documented code, featuring extended Xinerama support, usage of libxcb instead of xlib and several improvements over wmii.
Sway is a 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.
Openbox is a highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support.
A Wayland desktop shell with the bar, notifications, OSD, wallpaper, and device controls built in. Written in Rust with GTK4 and Relm4.
awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast, extensible and licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license.
Fluxbox is a window manager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. It is very light on resources and easy to handle but yet full of features to make an easy, and extremely fast, desktop experience. It is built using C++ and licensed under the MIT license.
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