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9 Best Free and Open Source Tiling Window Managers

There are a few different types of window managers. This article recommends the best tiling window managers.

A dynamic window manager is a tiling window manager where windows are tiled based on preset layouts between which the user can switch.

newm-atha is a Wayland compositor written with laptops and touchpads in mind. It’s a fork of newm.

polonium is a tiling window manager for KWin.

SwayFX is a fork of Sway. This fork was developed on the basis that Sway is restricted to only include the functionality that existed in i3.

The goal of this project is to provide a successor to ratpoison for Wayland users.

japokwm is a dynamic tiling wayland compositor where you are able to create new layouts without the hassle of editing the source code.

river is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor with flexible runtime configuration.

dwl is a compact, hackable compositor for Wayland based on wlroots.

Hyprland is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn’t sacrifice on its looks.