herbstluftwm Alternatives

Openbox

Openbox is a highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support.

i3

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

Features:

• Tiling Window Manager
• Lightweight
• Tiling
• X server

Fluxbox

Fluxbox is a window manager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. It is very light on resources and easy to handle but yet full of features to make an easy...

awesome

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

Features:

• Extensible window manager
• Tiling
• X server

Xmonad

xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell. In a normal WM, you spend half your time aligning and searching for windows....

Features:

• Extensible window manager
• Tiling
• X server

dwm

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...

Features:

• Lightweight
• X server

Amethyst

Amethyst is a tiling window manager for Mac similar to the xmonad tiling window manager popular on Linux. Amethyst is written in Objective-C and has configurable...

Features:

• Tiling Layouts
• Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
• Tiling

Bluetile

Bluetile is a tiling window manager for Linux, designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment. It provides both a traditional, stacking layout mode as well as...

IceWM

IceWM is a Window Manager for X Window System. It is fast and memory-efficient, and it provides many different looks including Windows'95, OS/2 Warp 3,4, Motif.

Sway

Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11.

Features:

• Tiling
• Tiling Layouts
• Tiling Window Manager