nog
A tiling window manager for Windows (by TimUntersberger)
glazewm
GlazeWM is a tiling window manager for Windows inspired by i3 and Polybar. (by glzr-io)
| nog | glazewm | |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | 28 | |
| 688 | 3,500 | |
| - | 11.9% | |
| 0.0 | 7.9 | |
| over 2 years ago | about 23 hours ago | |
| Rust | C# | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
nog
Posts with mentions or reviews of nog.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-26.
- FancyZones fork which maximizes windows properly
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Komorebi: Another tiling window manager for Windows 10 based on binary space partitioning
Once again I'm happy to answer any questions, and I want to give a special thanks to nog, leftwm and umberwm, whose work this project borrows from and builds upon.
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I found interesting to find that Microsoft has Rust as one of the main "Develoipment paths" to development on Windows.
I wrote my very first window manager for Windows 10 in Rust earlier this here, I built it from the ground up using the new windows-rs crate. It was my first time developing anything for Windows and I was pleasantly surprised with the quality of the MS documentation ecosystem, and I also had a lot of great example code to learn from thanks to other projects like nog.
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Closest thing to i3 on windows
My pick would be nog, also see this post. Probably worth a try.
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Can I do this?
Instead of explorer.exe, I use Nog which is a tiling window manager for Windows. I have x410 autostart and wsl launch i3.
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[yatta] Windows 10 BSP TWM - looking for contributors
To give credit where it is due, I borrowed and repurposed a fair chunk of code from https://github.com/TimUntersberger/nog, https://github.com/tarkah/grout and https://github.com/yazgoo/umberwm to get up and running.
glazewm
Posts with mentions or reviews of glazewm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-08.
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Tools to achieve a 10x developer workflow on Windows
The two biggest tiling window manager projects for Windows are komorebi and GlazeWM. Komorebi is probably faster and more resource efficient since it is written in Rust, but I stick with Glaze for now since it has a cool status bar built in I like.
- GlazeWM 2.0: A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11
- GlazeWM: A tiling window manager for Windows inspired by i3 and Polybar
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WSL and Vim development setup
If you're looking for a Windows alternative for i3, you should check out GlazeWM
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Another DWM experiment: DVD logo animation applied to a window (it's much faster while not recording)
I'm not really sure if this "replaces" the WM or just 'runs it' https://github.com/lars-berger/GlazeWM
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How can I create a custom task bar in Windows 11?
Have a look at how GlazeWM does it. https://github.com/lars-berger/GlazeWM
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WSL - Microsoft Linux
Microsoft I3WM
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Working with one Monitor
GlazeWM
- i3wm for Windows 11?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nog and glazewm you can also consider the following projects:
leftwm - A tiling window manager for Adventurers
komorebi - A tiling window manager for Windows 🍉
workspacer - a tiling window manager for Windows
bug.n - Tiling Window Manager for Windows
PowerToys - Windows system utilities to maximize productivity
yatta - A tiling window manager for Windows 10 based on binary space partitioning
LaunchyQt - :rocket: Launchy project reactivated. Get the familiar feeling now!
umberwm - :ram: a minimalistic X window manager based on tinywm, inspired by qtile.
UltrawideWindows - KWin script to move windows quickly
grist - A Windows window manager written in Rust
Portainer - Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.