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Xmonad Alternatives
Xmonad is described as 'Dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell. In a normal WM, you spend half your time aligning and searching for windows. xmonad makes work easier, by automating this' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Xmonad for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Mac and X11 apps. The best Xmonad alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Xmonad are niri, Sway, i3 and Openbox.
Alternatives list
Cage 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.
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- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Linux
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MacOS Niri and Hyprland inspired tiling window manager that's developer signed and notorized (safe for managed enterprise environments). Aiming for parity and extra innovation.
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).
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A versatile and customizable window manager / Wayland compositor, currently in development and actively seeking contributions from the community.
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Way Cooler is a tiling Wayland window manager, written in Rust, configurable using Lua, and extendable with D-Bus.
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Linux auto tiling manager with hot corner support for Openbox, Fluxbox, IceWM, Xfwm, KWin, Marco, Muffin, Mutter and other EWMH compliant window managers using the X11 window system.
