bspwm VS dunst

Compare bspwm vs dunst and see what are their differences.

bspwm

A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning (by baskerville)

dunst

Lightweight and customizable notification daemon (by dunst-project)
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bspwm dunst
92 42
7,462 4,251
- 2.2%
1.5 8.8
10 days ago 15 days ago
C C
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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bspwm

Posts with mentions or reviews of bspwm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-09.

dunst

Posts with mentions or reviews of dunst. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-11.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bspwm and dunst you can also consider the following projects:

mako - A lightweight Wayland notification daemon

i3 - A tiling window manager for X11

sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor

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

awesome - awesome window manager

spicetify-themes - A community-driven collection of themes for customizing Spotify through Spicetify - https://github.com/spicetify/spicetify-cli

river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

rofi - A huge collection of Rofi based custom Applets, Launchers & Powermenus.

rofi - Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement

bismuth - KDE Plasma add-on, that tiles your windows automatically and lets you manage them via keyboard, similarly to i3, Sway or dwm.

gruvbox - Retro groove color scheme for Vim

herbstluftwm - A manual tiling window manager for X11