Top 6 C Tiling Projects

i3

200 9,025 7.6 C

A tiling window manager for X11

Project mention: Show HN: Chrome Reaper | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-19

While I believe Memory Saver was a great improvement, it only works if the tab is hidden or the window minimized. I recently learned the required state is not triggered if the tab is open but on another virtual desktop. At least this is the case with many of not all Linux window managers. Some of the many discussion threads on the topic:
https://github.com/i3/i3/issues/4353

gpac

7 2,560 9.8 C

GPAC Ultramedia OSS for Video Streaming & Next-Gen Multimedia Transcoding, Packaging & Delivery
WorkOS

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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
howm

1 645 0.0 C

A lightweight, X11 tiling window manager that behaves like vim
shod

5 164 8.2 C

mouse-based window manager that can tile windows inside floating containers
japokwm

3 132 8.2 C

A wlroots and dwl based tiling wayland compositor based around creating layouts
vliv

1 37 3.9 C

The Very Large Image Viewer

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2023-12-19.