bspwm VS i3-gaps

Compare bspwm vs i3-gaps and see what are their differences.

bspwm

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

i3-gaps

i3-gaps – i3 with more features (forked from https://github.com/i3/i3) (by OstOgBajer)
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bspwm i3-gaps
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1.5 0.0
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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.

i3-gaps

Posts with mentions or reviews of i3-gaps. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-06.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bspwm and i3-gaps you can also consider the following projects:

i3 - A tiling window manager for X11

i3 - A fork of the i3 window manager with gaps and some other features. :warning: i3-gaps has been merged into i3.

sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor

Amethyst - Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad.

river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

krohnkite - A dynamic tiling extension for KWin

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

komorebi - A tiling window manager for Windows 🍉

herbstluftwm - A manual tiling window manager for X11

i3-multimonitor-workspace - i3wm Multi-Monitor workspace

spectrwm - A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.

exwm - Emacs X Window Manager