FrankenWM VS i3

Compare FrankenWM vs i3 and see what are their differences.

FrankenWM

🖼️ Fast dynamic tiling X11 window manager (by sulami)
tiling-window-manager C Xcb X11 HacktoberFest
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i3

A fork of the i3 window manager with gaps and some other features. :warning: i3-gaps has been merged into i3. (by Airblader)
i3-gaps I3 I3wm X11 x11-wm Xorg Xcb

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FrankenWM i3
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0.0 6.3
over 2 years ago over 1 year ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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FrankenWM

Posts with mentions or reviews of FrankenWM. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-22.

i3

Posts with mentions or reviews of i3. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-11.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing FrankenWM and i3 you can also consider the following projects:

unclutter-xfixes - Hides the cursor on inactivity (rewrite of unclutter)

i3-gaps - i3-gaps – i3 with more features (forked from https://github.com/i3/i3)

2bwm - A fast floating WM written over the XCB library and derived from mcwm.

nerd-fonts - Iconic font aggregator, collection, & patcher. 3,600+ icons, 50+ patched fonts: Hack, Source Code Pro, more. Glyph collections: Font Awesome, Material Design Icons, Octicons, & more

macchina - A system information frontend with an emphasis on performance.

i3-gaps-wm - A fork of the i3 window manager with gaps and some other features

compton - A lightweight compositor for X11 [Moved to: https://github.com/yshui/picom]

kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal

x11fs - A tool for manipulating X windows

polybar-themes - A huge collection of polybar themes with different styles, colors and variants.

picom - A lightweight compositor for X11

Ulauncher - Feature rich application Launcher for Linux

FrankenWM vs unclutter-xfixes i3 vs i3-gaps FrankenWM vs 2bwm i3 vs nerd-fonts FrankenWM vs macchina i3 vs i3-gaps-wm FrankenWM vs compton i3 vs kitty FrankenWM vs x11fs i3 vs polybar-themes FrankenWM vs picom i3 vs Ulauncher