Way Cooler Alternatives

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 i3, Openbox, Sway and awesome.

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

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Way Cooler alternatives page was last updated May 10, 2024
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  1. herbstluftwm icon

    herbstluftwm

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    herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    herbstluftwm screenshot 1

    herbstluftwm Features

    1.  X server
    2.  Tiling Window Manager

    herbstluftwm VS Way Cooler

     
  2. Polonium icon

    Polonium

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    An autotile manager for Plasma 6. An (unofficial) spiritual successor to Bismuth built on KWin 6. The descendant of autotile.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
    • Wayland
    Polonium screenshot 1

    Polonium Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  Wayland Support
    3.  Tiling Window Manager
    4.  Tiling
    5.  KDE

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  4. dwl

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    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:

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
    dwl screenshot 1

    dwl Features

    1.  Compositor
    2.  Tiling

    dwl VS Way Cooler

     
  5. Japokwm icon

    Japokwm

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    A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor (forked from dwl) that makes it a breeze to create custom layouts with a simple configuration. 🚀

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Japokwm screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  No registration required
    3.  Tiling

    Japokwm VS Way Cooler

     

  6. bug.n

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    bug.n is a tiling window manager add-on for Microsoft Windows. It is written in the scripting language AutoHotkey.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Properties

    1.  Customizable

    Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Tiling
    3.  Workspaces
    4.  Feed Reader

    bug.n VS Way Cooler

     
  7. Ratpoison icon

    Ratpoison

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    Ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no rodent dependence. The screen can be split into non-overlapping frames. All windows are kept maximized inside their frames to take full advantage of your...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • X11
    Ratpoison screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  No Tracking
    4.  Tiling
    5.  X server
    6.  Tiling Window Manager

    Ratpoison VS Way Cooler

     
  9. Amethyst Windows icon

    Amethyst Windows

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    Automatic tiling window manager for Windows 10.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Amethyst Windows screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    The latest version is from January 2023, and the GitHub repository is archived.

    Amethyst Windows Features

    1.  Window organizer
    2.  Tiling Window Manager
    3.  Tiling

    Amethyst Windows VS Way Cooler

     
  10. hikari icon

    hikari

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    hikari [ja. Light] is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    hikari screenshot 1

    hikari Features

    1.  Tiling Window Manager

    hikari VS Way Cooler

     
  11. i3-gaps icon

    i3-gaps

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    i3-gaps is a fork of i3wm, a tiling window manager for X11. It is kept up to date with upstream, adding a few additional features such as gaps between windows.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    i3-gaps screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    i3-gaps has been merged into i3 icon i3.

    i3-gaps Features

    1.  Tiling Window Manager

    i3-gaps VS Way Cooler

     
  12. PyTyle icon

    PyTyle

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    PyTyle is an extremely versatile and extensible tiling manager that is meant to be used on top of EWMH window managers. Its feature set was modeled after the basic tiling features of XMonad.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    PyTyle screenshot 1

    PyTyle Features

    1.  Window organizer
    2.  Tiling Window Manager

    PyTyle VS Way Cooler

     
  13. pekwm icon

    pekwm

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    pekwm is a window manager that once up on a time was based on the aewm++ window manager, but it has evolved enough that it no longer resembles aewm++ at all. It has a much expanded feature-set, including window grouping (similar to ion, pwm, or fluxbox), autoproperties...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    pekwm screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    pekwm VS Way Cooler

     
  14. Bluetile icon

    Bluetile

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    Bluetile is a tiling window manager for Linux, designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment. It provides both a traditional, stacking layout mode as well as tiling layouts where windows are arranged to use the entire screen without overlapping.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Bluetile screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    The last commit on this software is ten years ago and the GNOME desktop has moved on. Notably, it is now difficult to replace the default window manager in GNOME.

    Bluetile Features

    1.  Snap windows

    Bluetile VS Way Cooler

     
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