Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Openbox

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The top open-source alternatives to Openbox are i3, Xmonad, and Sway. 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
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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
Xmonad Landing Page
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Xmonad

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
Sway Landing Page
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Sway

Sway is a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager, but for Wayland instead of X11.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Meditation #Linux #Health And Fitness 53 social mentions
qtile Landing Page
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qtile

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

Window Maker

Window Maker is a free and open-source window manager for the X Window System
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Open Source #Linux #Window Manager 1 social mentions
herbstluftwm Landing Page
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herbstluftwm

herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Open Source #Linux #Utilities 9 social mentions
Lumina Desktop Environment Landing Page
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Lumina Desktop Environment

Lumina is a lightweight, BSD licensed, standards-compliant desktop environment based upon Qt and...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Operating Systems #Linux #Window Manager 6 social mentions
GNUstep Landing Page
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GNUstep

GNUstep is a mature Framework, suited both for advanced GUI desktop applications as well as server...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Operating Systems #Linux #Window Manager 2 social mentions
Rectangle Landing Page
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Rectangle

Window management app based on Spectacle, written in Swift.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#AI #Developer Tools #Mac Tools 462 social mentions
Arch Linux Landing Page
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Arch Linux

You've reached the website for Arch Linux, a lightweight and flexible Linux® distribution that tries to Keep It Simple. Currently we have official packages optimized for the x86-64 architecture.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Open Source #Operating Systems #Linux 258 social mentions
elementary OS Landing Page
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elementary OS

A fast and open replacement for Windows and macOS. Pay what you want or download for free.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Open Source #Operating Systems #Linux 145 social mentions