Waybox Alternatives

Apps similar to Waybox include Hyprland, which is free and open source. Other options are niri, Sway, GlazeWM and Cardboard (Wayland compositor). There's no shortage of Window Managers like Waybox, with more than 25 alternatives for Linux, Mac and Windows.

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Waybox alternatives page was last updated Sep 28, 2026

mangowc
1 like
wayland compositor base wlroots and scenefx(dwm but wayland).
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Wayland Compositor
Platforms
Wayland
Linux
W
Good alternative?Is mangowc a good alternative to Waybox?
hikari
2 likes
hikari [ja. Light] is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Platforms
Linux
BSD
+2
W
Good alternative?Is hikari a good alternative to Waybox?
term.everything
1 like
Run any GUI app in the terminal?.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Application type
Wayland Compositor
Platforms
Linux
+1
W
Good alternative?Is term.everything a good alternative to Waybox?
Labwc
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Labwc stands for Lab Wayland Compositor, where lab can mean any of the following:
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application typeApplication types
Window Manager
Wayland Compositor
Platforms
Linux
W
Good alternative?Is Labwc a good alternative to Waybox?
Gnome Mutter
1 like
Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application type
Window Manager
Origin
United States
Platforms
Linux
GNOME
Wayland
W
Good alternative?Is Gnome Mutter a good alternative to Waybox?
Umbriel
1 like
Umbriel is a Wayland compositor designed for daily use, with scrolling, dwindle, and master layouts, per-output workspaces, window rules, blur, shadows, and fluid animations.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Wayland Compositor
Platforms
Linux
Wayland
W
Good alternative?Is Umbriel a good alternative to Waybox?
doWM
1 like
doWM is a beautiful floating and tiling window manager for X11 completely written in golang.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Window Manager
Platforms
X11
Linux
BSD
+6
W
Good alternative?Is doWM a good alternative to Waybox?
miracle-wm
1 like
A Wayland compositor based on Mir. It features a tiling window manager at its core, very much in the style of i3 and sway. The intention is to build a compositor that is flashier and more feature-rich than either of those compositors, like swayfx.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Window Manager
Origin
United States
Platforms
Linux
Wayland
United States
W
Good alternative?Is miracle-wm a good alternative to Waybox?
Pinnacle
1 like
Pinnacle is a Wayland compositor built in Rust using Smithay. It's my attempt at creating something like AwesomeWM for Wayland.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Window Manager
Platforms
Linux
Wayland
W
Good alternative?Is Pinnacle a good alternative to Waybox?
Polonium
1 like
An autotile manager for Plasma 6. An (unofficial) spiritual successor to Bismuth built on KWin 6. The descendant of autotile.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Application typeApplication types
Window Manager
Wayland Compositor
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Linux
KDE
Wayland
W
Good alternative?Is Polonium a good alternative to Waybox?
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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:
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Wayland Compositor
Platforms
Linux
Wayland
+5
D
W
Good alternative?Is dwl a good alternative to Waybox?
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V
Vivarium
1 like
A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots, with desktop semantics inspired by xmonad.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Window Manager
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Linux
Wayland
V
W
Good alternative?Is Vivarium a good alternative to Waybox?