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Sway

Sway is a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager, but for Wayland instead of X11.

Top 10 Open-Source Alternatives to Sway

i3 Xmonad qtile herbstluftwm Rectangle Fusuma LeftWM altdrag Lumina Desktop Environment

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Sway are i3, Xmonad, and qtile. 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.
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    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. 2
    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

  3. 3
    Qtile is a full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written in Python.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Window Manager #Linux #Utilities 6 social mentions

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

    #Window Manager #Linux #Utilities 8 social mentions

  5. 5

    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

  6. Window management app based on Spectacle, written in Swift.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Mac Tools #Window Manager #Developer Tools 447 social mentions

  7. 7
    Build presentations easily using Markdown
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Mac Tools #Window Manager #OSX Tools 39 social mentions

  8. 8
    OS & Utilities
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Linux #Window Manager #Open Source

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

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

  10. Lumina is a lightweight, BSD licensed, standards-compliant desktop environment based upon Qt and...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Linux #Operating Systems #Desktop Environments 6 social mentions

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