Way Cooler is described as 'Tiling Wayland window manager, written in Rust, configurable using Lua, and extendable with D-Bus' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Way Cooler for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Mac, Wayland and Windows apps. The best Way Cooler alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Way Cooler are niri, i3, Sway and Openbox.
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.
Amethyst is the most popular Mac alternative to Way Cooler.
komorebi is a tiling window manager that works as an extension to Microsoft's Desktop Window Manager in Windows 10 and above.
Komorebi Window Manager is the most popular Windows alternative to Way Cooler.
dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts. All of the layouts can be applied dynamically, optimising the environment for the application in use and the task performed.
yabai started as a C99 rewrite of chunkwm, originally supposed to be its first RC version.
Sway is an incredible window manager, and certainly one of the most well established wayland window managers. However, it is restricted to only include the functionality that existed in i3. This fork ditches the simple wlr_renderer, and replaces it with our fx_renderer, capable...
A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor (forked from dwl) that makes it a breeze to create custom layouts with a simple configuration. 🚀
Wayfire is a 3D Wayland compositor, inspired by Compiz and based on wlroots. It aims to create a customizable, extendable and lightweight environment without sacrificing its appearance.
xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell. In a normal WM, you spend half your time aligning and searching for windows. xmonad makes work easier, by automating this.
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.
hikari [ja. Light] is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.
wmii is a small, dynamic window manager for X11. It is scriptable, has a 9p filesystem interface and supports classic and tiling (acme-like) window management. It aims to maintain a small and clean (read hackable and beautiful) codebase.
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