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We've compiled a list of 22 free and paid alternatives to Fluxbox. The primary competitors include Openbox, i3. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between Fluxbox and awesome, dwm, Xmonad. Also you can look at other similar options here: OS and Utilities.


Openbox
Free Open Source

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

i3
Free Open Source

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

awesome
Free Open Source

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

dwm
Free Open Source

dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts.

Xmonad
Free Open Source

xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell.

wmii
Free Open Source

wmii is a small, dynamic window manager for X11.

wtftw
Free Open Source

Window Tiling For The Win. A tiling window manager written in Rust

Phoenix
Free Open Source

Phoenix is a lightweight OS X window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript.

Way Cooler
Free Open Source

A tiling Wayland window manager, written in Rust, configurable using Lua, and extendable with D-Bus.

Wmderland
Free Open Source

Lightweight Tiling Window Manager for X Window System

Fluxbox is a window manager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code.

Fluxbox Platforms

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Fluxbox Overview

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, and extremely fast, desktop experience. It is built using C++ and licensed under the MIT license.

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