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Top 9 Open Source Products in Window Manager

The best Open Source Products within the Window Manager category - based on our collection of reviews & verified products.

i3 dwm IceWM bspwm Fluxbox awesome qtile Xmonad herbstluftwm

Summary

The top products on this list are i3, dwm, and IceWM. All products here are categorized as: We recommend LibHunt for [discovery and comparisons of open-source projects](https://www.libhunt.com/). Software for managing and organizing open windows on a computer desktop. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
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    i3

    A dynamic tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii, and written in C.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Open Source #Linux #Utilities 90 social mentions

  2. 2

    dwm

    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.

    #Open Source #Linux #Utilities 67 social mentions

  3. 3
    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.

    #Open Source #Linux #Utilities

  4. 4
    A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning

    #Open Source #Linux #Utilities 21 social mentions

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

    #Open Source #Linux #Utilities 6 social mentions

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

    #Open Source #Linux #Utilities

  7. 7
    Qtile is a full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written in Python.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Open Source #Linux #Utilities 6 social mentions

  8. 8
    xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Open Source #Linux #Utilities 15 social mentions

  9. herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Open Source #Linux #Utilities 9 social mentions

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