bspwm VS river

Compare bspwm vs river and see what are their differences.

bspwm

A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning (by baskerville)
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bspwm river
92 82
7,491 2,919
- 3.7%
1.5 9.4
about 1 month ago 2 days ago
C Zig
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.

river

Posts with mentions or reviews of river. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-03.

What are some alternatives?

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

i3 - A tiling window manager for X11

sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor

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

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

wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor

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

dwl - dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg

herbstluftwm - A manual tiling window manager for X11

qtile - :cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)

spectrwm - A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.

autotiling - Script for sway and i3 to automatically switch the horizontal / vertical window split orientation