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


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, Sway, i3 and GlazeWM.
Way Cooler is a tiling Wayland window manager, written in Rust, configurable using Lua, and extendable with D-Bus.





PaperWM is an experimental Gnome Shell extension providing scrollable tiling of windows and per monitor workspaces. It's inspired by paper notebooks and tiling window managers. Supports Gnome Shell 3.28 and 3.30 on X11 and wayland.




Cage is a kiosk compositor for Wayland. A kiosk is a window manager (in the X11 world) or compositor (in the Wayland world) that is designed for a user experience wherein user interaction and activities outside the scope of the running application are prevented.
Linux auto tiling manager with hot corner support for Openbox, Fluxbox, IceWM, Xfwm, KWin, Marco, Muffin, Mutter and other EWMH compliant window managers using the X11 window system.


Weston is a Wayland compositor designed for correctness, reliability, predictability, and performance.


StumpWM is a 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.


