bspwm VS i3-multimonitor-workspace

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

bspwm

A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning (by baskerville)
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bspwm i3-multimonitor-workspace
92 1
7,500 6
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1.5 0.0
1 day ago over 2 years ago
C Python
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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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-multimonitor-workspace

Posts with mentions or reviews of i3-multimonitor-workspace. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-06.
  • Switching to the I3 Window Manager
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Sep 2021
    Not exactly the same purpose but here is a small tool I wrote to group workspaces across all monitors : https://github.com/J3rome/i3-multimonitor-workspace

    TLDR: global workspace span across all monitors. Changing workspace change for all monitors (Similar to what happen in windows & macos). In my opinion, it allows for a better separation between workspaces/tasks.

    It's a MVP/alpha software. Need some optimisations but it does the job (been using it daily for over a year now).

What are some alternatives?

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

i3 - A tiling window manager for X11

komorebi - A tiling window manager for Windows 🍉

sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor

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

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

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

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.

exwm - Emacs X Window Manager

herbstluftwm - A manual tiling window manager for X11