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We've compiled a list of 29 free and paid alternatives to awesome. The primary competitors include Openbox, i3. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between awesome and Fluxbox, dwm, Xmonad. Also you can look at other similar options here: OS and Utilities.
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Openbox is a highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support.
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A dynamic tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii, and written in C.
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Fluxbox is a window manager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code.
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dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts.
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xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell.
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Phoenix is a lightweight OS X window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript.
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KWin is a window manager for the X Window System, and is in the process of becoming a Wayland...
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A tiling Wayland window manager, written in Rust, configurable using Lua, and extendable with D-Bus.
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Tiling window manager for OS X similar to xmonad, written in pure Objective-C.
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A dynamic window manager for the X Window System developed in the C and Lua programming languages.
A dynamic window manager for the X Window System developed in the C and Lua programming languages.
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awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast, extensible and licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license.
It is primarily targeted at power users, developers and any people dealing with every day computing tasks and who want to have fine-grained control on theirs graphical environment.
Extensible window manager
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