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Ratpoison

Ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window...

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    A dynamic tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii, and written in C.

    Key i3 features:

    Efficient Window Management Lightweight Customizability Keyboard-Centric

    Open Source

    /i3-alternatives
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    Qtile is a full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written in Python.

    Key qtile features:

    Highly Customizable Lightweight Active Community Flexibility

    Open Source

    /qtile-alternatives
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    Key you.bot features:

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    A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning.

    Key bspwm features:

    Highly Configurable Efficient Use of Screen Space Lightweight Scriptable with Unix Philosophy

    /bspwm-alternatives
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    dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts. All of the layouts can be applied dynamically, optimising the environment for the application in use and the task performed.

    Key dwm features:

    Lightweight Customizable Simplicity Tiling Window Management

    /dwm-alternatives
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    spectrwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.

    Key spectrwm features:

    Lightweight Keyboard-driven Customizability Multi-head support

    /spectrwm-alternatives
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    xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell.

    Key Xmonad features:

    Highly Customizable Efficient and Minimalist Keyboard-Centric Tiling Window Manager

    Open Source

    /xmonad-alternatives
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    herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib.

    Key herbstluftwm features:

    Tiling Window Management Scriptability Lightweight Simple Configuration

    Open Source

    /herbstluftwm-alternatives
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    Fluxbox is a window manager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code.

    Key Fluxbox features:

    Lightweight Customization Speed Stability

    /fluxbox-alternatives
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    A dynamic window manager for the X Window System developed in the C and Lua programming languages.

    Key awesome features:

    Highly Configurable Lightweight Lua Scripting Tiling and Dynamic Layouts

    Open Source

    /awesome-alternatives
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    icewm home page . Bug Tracking. If you have a patch, a bug report or a feature request to submit, please do so at the icewm project page at SourceForge.

    Key IceWM features:

    Lightweight Customizable Simple and Intuitive Stable and Reliable

    /icewm-alternatives
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    Enlightenment is not just a window manager for Linux/X11 and others, but also a whole suite of...

    Key Enlightenment features:

    Lightweight Highly Customizable Efficient Aesthetic Design

    /enlightenment-alternatives
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    All-in-one workspace. One tool for your whole team. Write, plan, and get organized.

    Key Notion features:

    All-in-One Workspace Highly Customizable Collaboration Features Cross-Platform Availability

    /notion-alternatives
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    tiny but monstrous tiling window manager. Contribute to c00kiemon5ter/monsterwm development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Key monsterwm features:

    Lightweight Minimal Dependencies Customizable Tiling Support

    /monsterwm-alternatives
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