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picom

A lightweight compositor for X11 (previously a compton fork).

Top 7 Open-Source Alternatives to picom

i3 Arch Linux Sway Joplin qtile Xmonad AltTab

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to picom are i3, Arch Linux, 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.
  1. 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

  2. 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

    #Linux #Linux Distribution #Operating Systems 256 social mentions

  3. 3
    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

  4. 4
    Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. The notes are searchable, tagged and modified either from the applications directly or from your own text editor.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free

    #Note Taking #Notes #Todos 350 social mentions

  5. 5
    Qtile is a full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written in Python.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Window Manager #Linux #Utilities 6 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
    Windows alt-tab on macOS
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Mac #Note Taking #Window Manager 9 social mentions

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