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A dynamic window manager for the X Window System developed in the C and Lua programming languages.

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    A dynamic tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii, and written in C.

    Key i3 features:

    Efficient Window Management Lightweight Customizability Keyboard-Centric

    Open Source

    /i3-alternatives
  2. 56

    Openbox is a highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support.

    Key Openbox features:

    Lightweight Customizable Fast Performance Comprehensive Keybindings

    /openbox-alternatives
  3. warmup.rocks keeps your CDN cache warm in every edge location worldwide: Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai, CloudFront and more. Warming from 42 countries, hit-ratio analytics.

    Key warmup.rocks features:

    Free Resource Copy-Paste Code Visual Preview Variety of Effects

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  4. 49

    dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts. All of the layouts can be applied dynamically, optimising the environment for the application in use and the task performed.

    Key dwm features:

    Lightweight Customizable Simplicity Tiling Window Management

    /dwm-alternatives
  5. 54

    Fluxbox is a window manager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code.

    Key Fluxbox features:

    Lightweight Customization Speed Stability

    /fluxbox-alternatives
  6. 48

    xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell.

    Key Xmonad features:

    Highly Customizable Efficient and Minimalist Keyboard-Centric Tiling Window Manager

    Open Source

    /xmonad-alternatives
  7. 52

    A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning.

    Key bspwm features:

    Highly Configurable Efficient Use of Screen Space Lightweight Scriptable with Unix Philosophy

    /bspwm-alternatives
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    Hyprland is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks. - GitHub - vaxerski/Hyprland: Hyprland is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on ...

    Key Hyprland features:

    Dynamic Tiling Wayland Support Customization Active Development

    Open Source

    /hyprland-alternatives
  9. 42

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

    Key Sway features:

    Wayland Compatibility i3 Compatibility Lightweight Customizability

    Open Source

    /sway-alternatives
  10. 51

    Qtile is a full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written in Python.

    Key qtile features:

    Highly Customizable Lightweight Active Community Flexibility

    Open Source

    /qtile-alternatives
  11. 34

    icewm home page . Bug Tracking. If you have a patch, a bug report or a feature request to submit, please do so at the icewm project page at SourceForge.

    Key IceWM features:

    Lightweight Customizable Simple and Intuitive Stable and Reliable

    /icewm-alternatives
  12. 22

    spectrwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.

    Key spectrwm features:

    Lightweight Keyboard-driven Customizability Multi-head support

    /spectrwm-alternatives
  13. 17

    Ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window...

    Key Ratpoison features:

    Minimalistic Design Keyboard Efficiency Tiling Window Management No Window Decorations

    /ratpoison-alternatives
  14. 15

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

    Key herbstluftwm features:

    Tiling Window Management Scriptability Lightweight Simple Configuration

    Open Source

    /herbstluftwm-alternatives
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