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wio Alternatives
wio is described as 'Wio is a Wayland compositor for Linux & FreeBSD which has a similar look & feel to plan9's rio' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to wio for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Wayland, Mac and Windows apps. The best wio alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like wio are niri, i3, Sway and Openbox.
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Strata is a cutting-edge, robust and sleek Wayland compositor written in Rust using the Smithay library. It is designed to be minimal and flexible yet customizable. Strata is configured in Lua, a lightweight, high-level, multi-paradigm programming language.
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.
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.
subtle is a manual tiling window manager with a rather uncommon approach of tiling: Instead of relying on predefined layouts, subtle divides the screen into a grid with customizeable slots (called gravities).
58 Cage: the Wayland kiosk alternativesCage is a kiosk compositor for Wayland. A kiosk is a window manager (in the X11 world) or compositor (in the Wayland world) that is designed for a user experience wherein user interaction and activities outside the scope of the running application are prevented.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
- Wayland
Mahogany is a tiling window manager for Wayland modeled after StumpWM. While it is not a drop-in replacement for StumpWM, StumpWM users should be very comfortable with Mahogany. Its planned features are:
51 PaperWM alternativesPaperWM 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.
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Weston is a Wayland compositor designed for correctness, reliability, predictability, and performance.
A versatile and customizable window manager / Wayland compositor, currently in development and actively seeking contributions from the community.
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