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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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68 Gnome Mutter alternativesMutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library.
Whim is a hackable, pluggable and scriptable dynamic window manager for Windows 10 and 11, built using WinUI 3, .NET, and C# scripting.
66 Phoenix alternativesPhoenix is a lightweight OS X window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript. You can also easily use languages which compile to JavaScript such as CoffeeScript. Phoenix aims for efficiency and a very small footprint.
WMFS² is a lightweight and highly configurable tiling window manager for X written in C. WMFS² is a free software distributed under the BSD license. It can be driven from keyboard or mouse and its configuration stands in one text file, easily understandable.
A versatile and customizable window manager / Wayland compositor, currently in development and actively seeking contributions from the community.
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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.
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50 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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45 OmniWM alternativesMacOS Niri and Hyprland inspired tiling window manager that's developer signed and notorized (safe for managed enterprise environments). Aiming for parity and extra innovation.
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