yabai Alternatives

yabai is described as 'Started as a C99 rewrite of chunkwm, originally supposed to be its first RC version' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 100 alternatives to yabai for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Wayland, BSD and Windows apps. The best yabai alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like yabai are Rectangle, niri, Sway and Loop - Window Management.

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  1. VEEER icon
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    VEEER is a lightweight window manager for your mac OSX - designed for designers & developers and built for a maximum workflow speed.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
  2. Miriway icon
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    Miriway is a starting point for creating a Wayland based desktop environment using Mir.

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    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
  3. PlasmaZones icon
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    Window management tool enabling creation of custom zones, drag-and-snap, keyboard shortcuts, automated window assignments, layout editor with templates, GPU overlays, multi-monitor layouts, virtual desktop and activity support, plus KCM integration for easy configuration.

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    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
     
  4. Deskovery icon
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    Deskovery is an OS X window manager. Windowshade, align, resize, change transparency of your windows.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. Ratpoison icon
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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...

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • X11
     
  6. Pinnacle icon
     1 like

    Pinnacle is a Wayland compositor built in Rust using Smithay. It's my attempt at creating something like AwesomeWM for Wayland.

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    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
  7. miracle-wm icon
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    A Wayland compositor based on Mir. It features a tiling window manager at its core, very much in the style of i3 and sway. The intention is to build a compositor that is flashier and more feature-rich than either of those compositors, like swayfx.

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    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
  8. doWM icon
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    doWM is a beautiful floating and tiling window manager for X11 completely written in golang.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • X11
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  9. Polonium icon
     1 like

    An autotile manager for Plasma 6. An (unofficial) spiritual successor to Bismuth built on KWin 6. The descendant of autotile.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
    • Wayland
     
  10.  1 like

    dwl is a compact, hackable compositor for Wayland based on wlroots. It is intended to fill the same space in the Wayland world that dwm does in X11, primarily in terms of functionality, and secondarily in terms of philosophy. Like dwm, dwl is:

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    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
  11. i3-gaps icon
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    i3-gaps is a fork of i3wm, a tiling window manager for X11. It is kept up to date with upstream, adding a few additional features such as gaps between windows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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