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Compare PaperWM VS i3-gaps and see what are their differences

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PaperWM logo PaperWM

Tiled scrollable window management for Gnome Shell - paperwm/PaperWM

i3-gaps logo i3-gaps

i3-gaps is a fork of i3wm, a tiling window manager for X11.
  • PaperWM Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-10-11
  • i3-gaps Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-14

PaperWM videos

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GNOME 3.34 - PaperWM: bugged but super fun to watch!!

i3-gaps videos

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What's On My Linux Laptop? Jan '18 [arch + i3-gaps]

More videos:

  • Review - i3-gaps Setup (Nearing Perfection; August 2017)

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to PaperWM and i3-gaps)

PaperWM

i3-gaps

Window Manager
36 36%
Window Manager
64% 64
Utilities
36 36%
Utilities
64% 64
Linux
35 35%
Linux
65% 65
Open Source
50 50%
Open Source
50% 50

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, PaperWM seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 1 time since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

PaperWM mentions (1)

  • Komorebi (a tiling window manager for Windows) v0.1.9 is out!
    I presumes this is probably out of the scope, but curious if there's interest to implement tiled scrolling behavior (https://github.com/paperwm/paperwm). I liked paperwm a lot, but couldn't find anything similar on Windows or else. Source: almost 2 years ago

i3-gaps mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of i3-gaps yet. Tracking of i3-gaps recommendations started around Mar 2021.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing PaperWM and i3-gaps, you can also consider the following products

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

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

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.

Tombstone Engine - A direct successor to the C4 engine.

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

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

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