wio Alternatives

Apps similar to wio include Hyprland, which is free and open source. Other options are niri, i3, Sway and Openbox. Window Managers like wio are a crowded field, with more than 50 alternatives for Linux, Mac and Windows.

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  1. Gnome Mutter icon
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    Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
    • Wayland
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  2. JWM icon
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    JWM is a light-weight window manager for the X11 Window System. JWM is written in C and uses only Xlib at a minimum. Because of its small footprint, JWM makes a good window manager for older computers and less powerful systems, such as the .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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  3. LeftWM icon
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    Left is a tiling window manager written in rust for stability and performance. The core of left is designed to do one thing and one thing well. Be a window manager. Because you probably want more than just a black screen LeftWM is built around the concept of theming.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  4. herbstluftwm icon
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    herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  5. Lumina is a lightweight, BSD licensed, standards-compliant desktop environment based upon Qt and Fluxbox. It is being developed on PC-BSD, and is being packaged for distribution on the PC-BSD package repository as well.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PC-BSD
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  6. Ratpoison icon
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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...

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • X11
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  7. doWM icon
     1 like

    doWM is a beautiful floating and tiling window manager for X11 completely written in golang.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • X11
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  8. miracle-wm icon
     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.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
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  9. Pinnacle icon
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    Pinnacle is a Wayland compositor built in Rust using Smithay. It's my attempt at creating something like AwesomeWM for Wayland.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
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  10. Polonium icon
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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 type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
    • Wayland
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