wmii Alternatives
wmii is described as 'Small, dynamic window manager for X11. It is scriptable, has a 9p filesystem interface and supports classic and tiling (acme-like) window management. It aims to maintain a small and clean (read hackable and beautiful) codebase' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to wmii for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Mac and X11 apps. The best wmii alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like wmii are Sway, niri, i3 and Openbox.
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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 .
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
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30 Labwc alternativesLabwc stands for Lab Wayland Compositor, where lab can mean any of the following:
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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.
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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...
Pinnacle is a Wayland compositor built in Rust using Smithay. It's my attempt at creating something like AwesomeWM for Wayland.
