dwm VS xmonad

Compare dwm vs xmonad and see what are their differences.

xmonad

The core of xmonad, a small but functional ICCCM-compliant tiling window manager (by xmonad)
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dwm xmonad
1 76
0 3,238
- 0.7%
0.0 7.8
over 1 year ago 9 days ago
C Haskell
MIT License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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dwm

Posts with mentions or reviews of dwm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-06.

xmonad

Posts with mentions or reviews of xmonad. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-04.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dwm and xmonad you can also consider the following projects:

sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor

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

spectrwm - A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.

i3 - A tiling window manager for X11

dotfiles-2.0 - XMonad™️. Widgets go brr.

Arch-Linux-xmonad-setup-guide

dotfiles

xmonad-contrib - Contributed modules for xmonad

xmobar - A minimalistic status bar

dotfiles

nixos-config - My NixOS configuration

xmonad-screenshot - Gtk-based screen capturing utility for XMonad.