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 Oct 22, 2024
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  1. Phoenix icon

    Phoenix

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    Phoenix is a lightweight OS X window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript. You can also easily use languages which compile to JavaScript such as CoffeeScript. Phoenix aims for efficiency and a very small footprint.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Phoenix screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

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  2. Vivarium

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    A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots, with desktop semantics inspired by xmonad.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Vivarium screenshot 1

    Vivarium Features

    1.  Wayland Support
    2.  Tiling
    3.  Tiling Window Manager

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  4. 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...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Blackbox WM screenshot 1

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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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Source: zachsnyder.deviantart.com/art/My-WMFS-9-30-2011-260849127
    Discontinued

    The last update on the GitHub repo (https://github.com/xorg62/wmfs) was on August 14th, 2013. The official website is no longer accessible, but has been archived by Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20141218125810/http://wmfs.info/

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Minimalistic

    Features

    1.  Tiling

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  6. Wmderland

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    Heavily Inspired by i3wm. Wmderland aims to simplify the core functionalities of i3wm, and bundle in the essential features required for a modern but minimal Tiling Window Manager.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Wmderland screenshot 1

    Wmderland Features

    1.  Tiling Layouts
    2.  Tiling
    3.  Tiling Window Manager

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    PaperWM

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    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.

    51 PaperWM alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
    Window switching and tiling.

    PaperWM Features

    1.  Tiling
    2.  Tiling Window Manager
    3.  Window Switching
    4.  Tiling Layouts

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    wtftw

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    Window Tiling For The Win (wtftw) is a tiling window manager written in Rust.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    wtftw screenshot 1

    wtftw Features

    1.  Tiling
    2.  Tiling Window Manager

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  10. StumpWM icon

    StumpWM

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    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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    StumpWM screenshot 1

    StumpWM Features

    1.  Support for scripting
    2.  Extensible window manager
    3.  Tiling Layouts
    4.  Tiling Window Manager

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    Xlambda

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    Xlambda is an X window manager that is extensible in Guile.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Xlambda Features

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions

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  12. Cortile icon

    Cortile

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    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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Cortile screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused
    2.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  No Tracking
    2.  No registration required
    3.  Ad-free
    4.  Support for scripting
    5.  KDE
    6.  Tiling Window Manager
    7.  Golang
    8.  Support for Hot corners

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  13. Cagebreak

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    A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison.

    56 Cagebreak alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

    Cagebreak Features

    1.  Tiling Window Manager
    2.  Compositor

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