Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to bspwm

Product categories

AI Automation Continuous Deployment Continuous Integration DevOps Tools Linux Open Source Personalization Utilities Wallpapers Window Manager Windows Tools

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to bspwm are i3, qtile, and Xmonad. 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.

i3 Landing Page
1

i3

A dynamic tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii, and written in C.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Window Manager #Linux #Open Source 89 social mentions
qtile Landing Page
2

qtile

Qtile is a full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written in Python.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Window Manager #Linux #Utilities 6 social mentions
Xmonad Landing Page
3

Xmonad

xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Window Manager #Linux #Utilities 14 social mentions
Sway Landing Page
4

Sway

Sway is a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager, but for Wayland instead of X11.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Health And Fitness #Meditation #Sleep 52 social mentions
herbstluftwm Landing Page
5

herbstluftwm

herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Window Manager #Linux #Utilities 8 social mentions
XQuartz Landing Page
6

XQuartz

The XQuartz project is an open-source effort to develop a version of the X.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Window Manager #OS & Utilities #Linux
JWM Landing Page
7

JWM

JWM

Also known as Joe's Window Manager. Created in 2003, one of the default window manager for Puppy Linux, and actively updated by Joe, its creator.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Window Manager #Linux #Utilities 3 social mentions
Rectangle Landing Page
8

Rectangle

Window management app based on Spectacle, written in Swift.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Mac Tools #Window Manager #Developer Tools 447 social mentions
Rainmeter Landing Page
9

Rainmeter

Rainmeter is a desktop customization platform.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Device Management #Monitoring Tools #System Information 6 social mentions
Variety Wallpaper Changer Landing Page
10

Variety Wallpaper Changer

Variety is a wallpaper changer for Ubuntu which is featureful, yet slim and very easy to use.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Linux #Wallpapers #Personalization 17 social mentions
Lively - Animated Wallpaper System Landing Page
11

Lively - Animated Wallpaper System

Animated Wallpapers: Turn Videos, Web pages, Games, Emulators into windows wallpapers. - rocksdanister/lively
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Wallpapers #Windows Tools #Personalization 15 social mentions
Jenkins Landing Page
12

Jenkins

Jenkins is an open-source continuous integration server with 300+ plugins to support all kinds of software development
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration #Continuous Deployment 5 social mentions