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We've compiled a list of 23 free and paid alternatives to i3. The primary competitors include Openbox, Fluxbox. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between i3 and dwm, Xmonad, awesome. 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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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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A dynamic window manager for the X Window System developed in the C and Lua programming languages.
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Phoenix is a lightweight OS X window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript.
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A tiling Wayland window manager, written in Rust, configurable using Lua, and extendable with D-Bus.
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Ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window...
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Tiling window manager for OS X similar to xmonad, written in pure Objective-C.
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A dynamic tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii, and written in C.
A dynamic tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii, and written in C.
Linux
i3 is a dynamic tiling window manager with clean, readable and documented code, featuring extended Xinerama support, usage of libxcb instead of xlib and several improvements over wmii.
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