Paperwm Alternatives

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15 best paperwm alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, Android and more. Paperwm alternative list source: github.com

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15 best paperwm alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, Android and more. Paperwm alternative list source: github.com

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Originally added: September 17, 2018

Compare Paperwm alternatives

Compare top-ranked Paperwm alternatives by score, license, and supported platforms.

Alternative	Score	License	Platforms
Openbox	95% 139 archived votes	Free, Open Source	Linux
I3	97% 99 archived votes	Free, Open Source	Linux
Fluxbox	89% 57 archived votes	Free, Open Source	Linux
Awesome	89% 47 archived votes	Free, Open Source	Linux
Xmonad	85% 39 archived votes	Free, Open Source	Mac, Linux
Dwm	79% 33 archived votes	Free, Open Source	Linux
Amethyst	81% 27 archived votes	Free, Open Source	Mac
Bluetile	77% 13 archived votes	Free, Open Source	Linux
Sway	67% 9 archived votes	Free, Open Source	Linux
Phoenix	22% 9 archived votes	Free, Open Source	Mac
Bspwm	14% 7 archived votes	Free, Open Source	Linux
Ratpoison	14% 7 archived votes	Free, Open Source	Linux

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Openbox

Score: 95%

FreeOpen SourceLinux

Comprehensive support for standards with Openbox highly configurable, next generation window manager. Minimalist box visual style is well known ... Features:Free,Open,Source,Linux,BSD

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I3

Score: 97%

FreeOpen SourceLinux

Dynamic tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii, and written in C Features:Free,Open,Source,Linux,BSD

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Fluxbox

Score: 89%

FreeOpen SourceLinux

Fluxbox, Blackbox 0.61.1 window manager for X, based on the code. Very resource friendly and easy to handle, but the functions are very easy to make Features:Free,Open,Source,Linux,BSD,C++

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Awesome

Score: 89%

FreeOpen SourceLinux

Dynamic window Manager for the X Window System, Lua programming language C and developed. . Features:Free,Open,Source,Linux,BSD

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Xmonad

Score: 85%

FreeOpen SourceMacLinux

Xmonad is an X11 window manager written and configured in Haskell dynamic tiles. In a normal WM, orientation, and spend half an hour on the search for Windows. Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Linux

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Dwm

Score: 79%

FreeOpen SourceLinux

Dwm-tile, a window manager manages Windows-X for dynamic layouts, and floating glasses. All of the layouts can be optimized to be applied dynamically Features:Free,Open,Source,Linux,BSD

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Amethyst

Score: 81%

FreeOpen SourceMac

Tiling-tiling window manager similar to xmonad, a window manager for Linux for Mac popular Amethyst. Amethyst is configurable and is written in Objective C Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac

Bluetile

Score: 77%

FreeOpen SourceLinux

Blue tile tiled window manager designed specifically for Integration with the GNOME desktop environment for Linux. Both a traditional, stacking layout mode. Features:Free,Open,Source,Linux

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Sway

Score: 67%

FreeOpen SourceLinux

I3 window manager for the reign, but under Wayland instead of X11 drop-in replacement. Features:Free,Open,Source,Linux

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Phoenix

Score: 22%

FreeOpen SourceMac

Phoenix is a simple script with JavaScript, OS X, Windows, and program Manager. The languages that you can use to compile JavaScript scripts. Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,GitHub

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Bspwm

Score: 14%

FreeOpen SourceLinux

Tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning. Features:Free,Open,Source,Linux

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Ratpoison

Score: 14%

FreeOpen SourceLinux

Ratpoison no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and simple window manager with rodent dependence. They share the screen. Features:Free,Open,Source,Linux

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Qtile

Score: 14%

FreeOpen SourceLinux

Qtile is written in Python, a high level of functionality, fragile, tiling window manager. Qtile is simple, small and extensible. Easy to write your own layouts, widgets Features:Free,Open,Source,Linux

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Herbstluftwm

Score: 40%

FreeOpen SourceLinux

X11 Xlib and herbstluftwm manual tiling window manager cursory lessons. Features:Free,Open,Source,Linux,BSD

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I3-gaps

Score: 50%

FreeOpen SourceLinux

I3gaps i3wm, a tiling window manager for X11 fork. To be kept up-to-date with the addition of a few additional features such as the gaps between the Windows. Features:Free,Open,Source,Linux