IceWM 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

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

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...

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

pekwm

pekwm is a window manager that once up on a time was based on the aewm++ window manager, but it has evolved enough that it no longer resembles aewm++ at all. It has a...

Features:

• Desktop Environment
• Lightweight

herbstluftwm

herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib.

JWM

JWM is a light-weight window manager for the X11 Window System. JWM is written in C and uses only Xlib at a minimum. Because of its small footprint, JWM makes a good...