bug.n vs HashTWM

bug.n

Tiling Window Manager for Windows (by fuhsjr00)

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An automatic Tiling Window Manager for the Windows OS. (by ZaneA)

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bug.n		HashTWM
	Project
18	Mentions	3
3,314	Stars	445
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	3.9
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	12 months ago
AutoHotkey	Language	C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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bug.n

Posts with mentions or reviews of bug.n. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-03.

Somehow AutoHotKey is kinda good now
12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 May 2023

There is even a dwm-style extremely comprehensive tiling window manager called bug.n [1], which I downloaded it way back in windows 8 days. Made a lot of changes myself and plan to open source it as a fork. Its too good. And combined with the rest of my AHK scripts, my windows setup turns out to be even more customised than many Linux systems I use.
See my post of my windows setup fooling r/unixporn [2] for how it could look.
[1] https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n
[Windows] Bester gekachelter Fenstermanager für Windows?
3 projects | /r/aufdeutsch | 24 Apr 2023

bug.n — Amongst other flavours is a dynamic, tiling window manager, which tries to clone the functionality of dwm
[Windows] Meilleur gestionnaire de fenêtres carrelé pour Windows?
3 projects | /r/enfrancais | 16 Mar 2023
Bug.n – Tiling Window Management for Windows
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Mar 2023
is there any software that lets me open a scpecific number of programs in specific places on my screen?
1 project | /r/software | 22 Feb 2023

another comment mentioned what you're looking for is a window manager: another for windows is bug.n
How do you manage your git commits?
7 projects | /r/github | 4 Feb 2023

So when i said "window manager based Linux" I was mostly referring to the stereotypes of the Linux window manager; which 1 person not even having a mouse; staring apps; moving windows doing everything with their keyboard. If you wanna look a bit more into window managers for windows the only "okay" one that I've personally used is bug.n and for Linux there's tons; but my personal fav is I3
Show HN: AutoHotkey for Linux
20 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Aug 2022

you can implement the wm manager of your dreams in ahk ... in like 500 lines. it's amazing stuff.
you can also go all out: https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n
Περιεργα χομπυ που εχετε?
1 project | /r/greece | 7 Aug 2022
What's the best Dynamic Tiling Window Manager for Windows 10/11?
3 projects | /r/windows | 5 Jul 2022

komorebi recently became the second-most starred dynamic tiling window manager for Windows 10+, behind bug.n, which unfortunately seems to have been officially abandoned as of this past week.
The year is 2022, on linux I can: browse the internet, open steam, discord etc. as native clients, adjust my room ambient lightning, play a current AAA title with a 1 click-tweak, edit a YT vector thumbnail and record & edit a video. Never would have dreamt leaving windows would be this comfy.
15 projects | /r/pcmasterrace | 26 Apr 2022

What exists on windows today (bug.n and others) isn't good enough.

HashTWM

Posts with mentions or reviews of HashTWM. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-24.

[Windows] Bester gekachelter Fenstermanager für Windows?
3 projects | /r/aufdeutsch | 24 Apr 2023

HashTWM — Tiling window manager with automatic tiling
[Windows] Meilleur gestionnaire de fenêtres carrelé pour Windows?
3 projects | /r/enfrancais | 16 Mar 2023
i3-wm for Windows
2 projects | /r/i3wm | 11 Jan 2021

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What are some alternatives?

When comparing bug.n and HashTWM you can also consider the following projects:

komorebi - A tiling window manager for Windows 🍉

python-windows-tiler - Simple tiling window manager written in Python intended for Windows XP/7

win3wm - A Tiling Window Manager for windows 10, Inspired by i3wm

PowerToys - Windows system utilities to maximize productivity

hunt-and-peck - Simple vimium/vimperator style navigation for Windows applications based on the UI Automation framework.

workspacer - a tiling window manager for Windows

Scoop - A command-line installer for Windows.

winget-cli - WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface).

lintalist - Searchable interactive texts to copy & paste text, run scripts, using easily exchangeable bundles

PyleWM - A utility for tiling window management keybindings on Microsoft Windows, inspired by use of i3/awesome.

nog - A tiling window manager for Windows

vscodium - binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing