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Openbox VS Sawfish

Compare Openbox VS Sawfish and see what are their differences

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Openbox logo Openbox

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

Sawfish logo Sawfish

Sawfish is an extensible window manager using a Lisp-based scripting language.
  • Openbox Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-06
  • Sawfish Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-26

Openbox videos

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Get Rid Of That Bloated Desktop Environment And Install Openbox

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Sawfish videos

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What is the sawfish?

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Openbox and Sawfish)

Openbox

Sawfish

Linux
100 100%
Linux
0% 0
Note Taking
0 0%
Note Taking
100% 100
Window Manager
91 91%
Window Manager
9% 9
Utilities
100 100%
Utilities
0% 0

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Reviews

These are some of the external sources and on-site user reviews we've used to compare Openbox and Sawfish

Openbox Reviews

Top 10 Best Desktop Environments in 2020
People who’re deep into Linux, love Openbox’s simplicity. It’s extremely lightweight, and comes with only a text-based right-click menu that lists all your applications. The menu is customizable too, and you can add scripts or functions within the menu as a link.
Source: www.journaldev.com

Sawfish Reviews

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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Openbox and Sawfish, you can also consider the following products

i3 - A dynamic tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii, and written in C.

Dexpot - If you don't have Dexpot yet, the new update makes it a must-have tool for Windows, adding a ton of features to your desktop that you never knew you wanted.

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.

Mission Control - Mission Control, formerly Exposé, is a feature of the OS X operating system.

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

VirtuaWin - VirtuaWin is a virtual desktop manager for the Windows operating system (Win9x/ME/NT/Win2K/XP/Win2003/Vista/Win7/Win10). A virtual desktop manager lets you organize applications over several virtual desktops (also called 'workspaces').

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