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We've compiled a list of 24 free and paid alternatives to wmii. The primary competitors include Openbox, i3. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between wmii and Fluxbox, dwm, Phoenix. 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.

Fluxbox
Free Open Source

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

dwm
Free Open Source

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

Phoenix
Free Open Source

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

awesome
Free Open Source

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

Xmonad
Free Open Source

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

Way Cooler
Free Open Source

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

wtftw
Free Open Source

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

Amethyst
Free Open Source

Tiling window manager for OS X similar to xmonad, written in pure Objective-C.

wmii is a small, dynamic window manager for X11.

wmii Platforms

tick-square Linux

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wmii Overview

wmii is a small, dynamic window manager for X11. It is scriptable, has a 9p filesystem interface and supports classic and tiling (acme-like) window management. It aims to maintain a small and clean (read hackable and beautiful) codebase.

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