Alternatives to Xmonad for all platforms with any license

  • i3

    i3 is a dynamic tiling window manager with clean, readable and documented code, featuring extended Xinerama support, usage of libxcb instead of xlib and several...

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

    Lightweight Add a feature

    i3 icon

  • Openbox

    Openbox is a highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support. The *box visual style is well known for its minimalistic...

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

    No features added Add a feature

    Openbox icon

  • awesome

    awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast, extensible and licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license. It is...

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

    No features added Add a feature

    awesome icon

  • Fluxbox

    Fluxbox is a window manager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. It is very light on resources and easy to handle but yet full of features to make an easy...

    Free Open Source Linux BSD C++

    No features added Add a feature

    Fluxbox icon

  • Bluetile

    Bluetile is a tiling window manager for Linux, designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment. It provides both a traditional, stacking layout mode as well as...

    Free Open Source Linux

    Snap windows Add a feature

    Bluetile icon

  • bspwm

    A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning.

    Free Open Source Linux

    No features added Add a feature

  • Ratpoison

    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...

    Free Open Source Linux

    No features added Add a feature

    Ratpoison icon

  • Phoenix

    Phoenix 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....

    Free Open Source Mac OS X GitHub

    Lightweight Add a feature

    Phoenix icon

  • Sway

    Sway is a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager, but for Wayland instead of X11.

    Free Open Source Linux

    No features added Add a feature

    Sway icon

  • herbstluftwm

    herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

    No features added Add a feature

    herbstluftwm icon

  • wmii

    wmii is a 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...

    Free Open Source Linux

    No features added Add a feature

    wmii icon

  • Know any more alternatives to Xmonad?

    Suggest an application to this list

  • IceWM

    IceWM is a window manager for the X Window System (freedesktop, XFree86). The goal of IceWM is speed, simplicity, and not getting in the user's way.

    Free Open Source Linux

    No features added Add a feature

    IceWM icon

  • spectrwm

    spectrwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff....

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

    Minimalistic Add a feature

    spectrwm icon

  • pekwm

    pekwm is a window manager that once up on a time was based on the aewm++ window manager, but it has evolved enough that it no longer resembles aewm++ at all. It has a...

    Free Open Source Linux

    Lightweight Add a feature

    pekwm icon

Platforms

Desktop

Show 5 less popular platforms

License

Xmonad Comments

Echo echo ... Feels empty in here

Maybe you want to be the first to submit a comment about Xmonad? Just click the button up to your right!