Wayfire Alternatives

Alternatives list

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   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.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Window Manager
   • Wayland Compositor

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • KDE
   • Wayland

   

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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

   

   

   

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   Vivarium

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   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

   

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   paneru

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   A scrollable, tiling window manager for MacOS.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Mac

   

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   chadwm

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   Making dwm as beautiful as possible!.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Origin

   • India

   Platforms

   • Linux

   • India

   

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   yashiki

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   macOS tiling window manager.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Mac

   

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   OmniWM

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   OmniWM is a free, open-source, Developer ID-signed and Apple-notarized tiling window manager for Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 26 or later. It combines Niri-style orientation-aware scrolling containers and Hyprland-style Dwindle BSP layouts, selectable per workspace, with...

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Mac

   

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    MangoWM

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    Practical and powerful Wayland compositor (dwm but wayland).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application typeApplication types

    • Window Manager
    • Wayland Compositor

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Wayland

    

    

    

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    Cocoa-Way

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    Native macOS Wayland compositor in Rust using Smithay, providing seamless Linux app streaming and display with OpenGL rendering, HiDPI Retina support, hardware acceleration, polished UI, server-side decorations, direct Wayland protocol, and zero VM overhead.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application type

    • Wayland Compositor

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Homebrew
    • Wayland

    

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    Superior X Window Manager

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    Window manager for X inspired by DWM, i3, and other tiling window managers. Windows are assigned to tags, and are automatically arranged on the screen in a stacked layout making the most of your monitor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • X11

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    Konveyor

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    Scrolling column tiling for KDE Plasma.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Origin

    • Thailand

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma

    • Thailand

    

    

    

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    sxwm

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    tiling window managers dont have to be difficult.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Origin

    • United Kingdom

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • X11

    • United Kingdom

    

    

    

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