bspwm VS herbstluftwm

Compare bspwm vs herbstluftwm and see what are their differences.

bspwm

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

herbstluftwm

A manual tiling window manager for X11 (by herbstluftwm)
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bspwm herbstluftwm
92 32
7,462 1,067
- 0.7%
1.5 4.0
10 days ago 12 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.

herbstluftwm

Posts with mentions or reviews of herbstluftwm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-29.

What are some alternatives?

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

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)

river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.

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

polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar

spectrwm - A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.

dunst - Lightweight and customizable notification daemon

feh - a fast and light image viewer

i3-multimonitor-workspace - i3wm Multi-Monitor workspace

void-packages - The Void source packages collection