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Mission Control

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

Top 9 Open-Source Alternatives to Mission Control

Hyper AltTab i3 altdrag herbstluftwm Xmonad qtile Cairo Shell

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Mission Control are Hyper, AltTab, and i3. 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.
  1. 1
    Extensible, cross-platform terminal built on open web standards.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Terminal Tools #Emulators #Terminal 42 social mentions

  2. 2
    Windows alt-tab on macOS
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Mac #Note Taking #Window Manager 9 social mentions

  3. 3

    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

  4. AltDrag allows you to move and resize windows much easier.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Window Manager #Mac Tools #OSX Tools 20 social mentions

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

    #Window Manager #Linux #Utilities 8 social mentions

  6. 6
    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

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

    #Window Manager #Linux #Utilities 6 social mentions

  8. Cairo is a desktop environment for Windows.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Image Optimisation #Note Taking #Cloud Computing 2 social mentions

  9. A lightweight utility for allowing you to quickly snap windows to a tiling grid under your existing...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Window Manager #OSX Tools #OSX Window Manager 4 social mentions

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