herbstluftwm VS bspwm

Compare herbstluftwm vs bspwm and see what are their differences.

bspwm

A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning (by baskerville)
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herbstluftwm bspwm
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1,073 7,515
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4.0 1.0
about 2 months ago 8 days ago
C++ C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License
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herbstluftwm

Posts with mentions or reviews of herbstluftwm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-29.
  • Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Dec 2023
    It's exactly how it works but only if you have mutliple screens.

    My comment was that, for this reason, 2 or 3 smaller (ish- ~27") 16:9 4k screens [1] (previously, 4–6 even smaller 4:3 screens) works much better for me because I can switch the spaces on my Macbook and i3/Sway virtual desktops on my Linux machine individually for each screen.

    If we're talking about having a smaller number of giant screens it would need to be able to be partitioned into logical "zones" for virtual desktops to enable this way of managing sets of windows together, and I've not found anything that really does this, let alone does it well (though honorable mention to HerbstluftWM [2] which I think, with patience, could probably do something pretty close).

    [1] preferably 16:10 but that seems to have died out as an aspect ratio :(

    [2] https://herbstluftwm.org/

  • Bare bone distro that i can custumize has i want for old pc ish?
    1 project | /r/FindMeADistro | 2 Dec 2022
    Lately I have been playing with herbstluftwm on Artix with dinit, and I dig it. The way it behaves is quite a bit different from other window managers I have used in the past, and it did take some getting used to at first, but after experimenting with the config for a couple days I ended up with a pretty deadly and very intuitive setup that - despite running on X11 - "feels" more like a proper battlestation for sure...
  • [herbstluftwm] drink coffee
    4 projects | /r/unixart | 2 Nov 2022
    wm: herbstluftwm
  • Clients Don't Remember Workspace
    1 project | /r/herbstluftwm | 27 Sep 2022
  • Command to spawn a bunch of applications on specific tags
    1 project | /r/herbstluftwm | 17 Sep 2022
    Rules can have once and maxage properties - see hlwm's exec_on_tag.sh script for some inspiration.
  • With rise of wayland, are simpler window managers dying?
    14 projects | /r/linux | 26 Aug 2022
    A few projects like AwesomeWM, and Herbsluftwm have had discussions on their issue trackers about supporting Wayland but a lot of them devolve into "Hey when will this be ready" style of comments, there's an interest in doing it but nobody is personally willing to take on the challenge
  • Herbstluftwm VS Frankenwm?
    1 project | /r/herbstluftwm | 16 Aug 2022
    - The commit messages - I run the git version, so I like to read about the latest features and fixes. These tend to be more verbose on a feature or fix than the docs, so it can be more helpful. - https://github.com/herbstluftwm/herbstluftwm/commits/master
  • opinions on my desktop?
    1 project | /r/teenagers | 12 Aug 2022
    It's herbstluftwm, a Window Manager! https://herbstluftwm.org/
  • What softwares do you recommend to a daily use BSD system?
    6 projects | /r/BSD | 11 Aug 2022
    The nicities that I pull would be the file browser from ROX, and a tiling window manager such as herbstluftwm. I could do everything I do today without these, such as with a terminal or OpenBSD's 'cwm', but I really enjoy using them!
  • Focus in max layout
    1 project | /r/herbstluftwm | 21 Jul 2022

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

i3 - A tiling window manager for X11

spectrwm - A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.

sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor

i3-gnome - Use i3wm/i3-gaps with GNOME Session infrastructure.

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

i3-workspace-groups - Manage i3wm workspaces in groups

river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar [Moved to: https://github.com/polybar/polybar]

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

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