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Top 23 tiling-window-manager Open-Source Projects
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material-shell
A modern desktop interface for Linux. Improve your user experience and get rid of the anarchy of traditional desktop workflows. Designed to simplify navigation and reduce the need to manipulate windows in order to improve productivity. It's meant to be 100% predictable and bring the benefits of tools coveted by professionals to everyone.
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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WorkOS
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.
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bismuth
KDE Plasma add-on, that tiles your windows automatically and lets you manage them via keyboard, similarly to i3, Sway or dwm.
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quicktile
Adds window-tiling hotkeys to any X11 desktop. (An analogue to WinSplit Revolution for people who don't want to use Compiz Grid)
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dotfiles
My dotfiles repo, here you can find all my window manager configs as well as documentation and a guide on how to make your own desktop environment. (by antoniosarosi)
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axyl-iso
Axyl is a Linux distro centered on tiling window managers. Choose from i3, bspwm, dwm and more.
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nixpkgs-wayland
Automated, pre-built packages for Wayland (sway/wlroots) tools for NixOS. [maintainers=@colemickens, @Artturin]
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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:
I really want https://material-shell.com/ for MacOS
it was perfect for using a single monitor
kinda like a deterministic alt+tab, you set up the layout of "workspaces" and they're always in the same place
I keep getting annoyed at alt+tab because I accidentally clicked on another window and now the order is messed up
I love seeing whenever this is (re)posted.
This article had such a huge impact on my life and led to me creating many pieces of software[1][2][3] that were hyper-specific to myself and my needs at the time, which also later found an audience in others who think and work in ways similar to me.
[1]: https://notado.app - a "content-first" internet bookmarking and highlighting service which has been my second brain since 2020 after growing frustrated with Instapaper, Pinboard and Readwise. Eventually I expanded this to allow for RSS feed publishing on specific topics in an attempt to solve the "firehose" problem when following other peoples' bookmarks/shares, and at the end of last year I added what is now my most used feature of image generation from highlights for sharing on image-first/text-hostile social media platforms.
[2]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi - tiling window manager for Windows. There wasn't really anything fit for purpose on Windows when I started, and I was too spoiled by bspwm and yabai on Linux and macOS that I just had to write something before I could become a truly productive Windows user. I'm astonished that this now has 50k+ downloads.
[3]: https://kulli.sh - I use this to aggregate comments from HN/Reddit/Lemmy/Lobsters on an article I'm interests in in one place to read. This has helped me find some interesting niche communities on Reddit and Lemmy who share and discuss things I'm interested in that I otherwise wouldn't have found.
Project mention: Any new Opensource projects in (rust) looking for contributors. I want to start my journey as an OSS contributor. | /r/rust | 2023-05-14
Project mention: Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-18What level are you interested in scripting? In KDE Plasma you can interact with the desktop UI via JS: https://develop.kde.org/docs/plasma/scripting/
And then for something more sophisticated there are extensions like https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth.
It does all feel a little disorganized/wild-west-y compared to say, a .vimrc with a list of plugins and bindings, which is something that makes a system like Nix (or a fully containerized DE of some kind) appealing
Project mention: Zellij – A terminal workspace with batteries included (tmux alternative) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-05Taking it even one step further, I probably would really be better off managing the window tiling in my window manager, however, I still have yet to settle on a tiling window manager that works well enough under wayland and supports everything I need well enough to give up the Gnome shell. I did try https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri this past weekend and it's pretty great. niri is inspired by PaperWM. I used PaperWM for a while and it was pretty awesome but suffers from the same issue as all of the tiling extensions for Gnome shell: they are never stable enough for for my daily use because Gnome is a moving target and the gnome shell extension API isn't really up to the task of radically transforming the window management paradigm. Projects like PaperWM have too many downsides that are really difficult to overcome, despite their significant innovation and appealing UX.
That's exactly what happens. Bismuth was a fork of Krohnkite. If someone needs Bismuth enough, they will pick it up, fork it or whatever.
Project mention: AeroSpace: An i3-like tiling window manager for macOS | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-24
You might wanna have a look at quicktile. It's basically an addon that adds tiling to existing WM. Works well, but lacks some of the intrgrations dedicated tiling WM have.
This is a fork of bismuth that works with plasma 6. Haven't tried it, but it is supposedly quite nice
Project mention: FancyWM: Open-Source Dynamic Tiling Window Manager for Windows 10/11 | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-10
Pro-tip: use https://github.com/nix-community/nixpkgs-wayland if you want Nvidia support and more frequently updating versions over nixpkgs.
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 2024-04-18.
tiling-window-manager related posts
- Window Borders for macOS
- Niri: A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
- AeroSpace: An i3-like tiling window manager for macOS
- AeroSpace – i3-like tiling window manager for macOS
- An app can be a home-cooked meal
- My review of XFCE.
- Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
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Index
What are some of the best open-source tiling-window-manager projects? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
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| 1 | i3 | 9,025 |
| 2 | material-shell | 7,225 |
| 3 | komorebi | 6,555 |
| 4 | SketchyBar | 4,304 |
| 5 | react-mosaic | 4,055 |
| 6 | leftwm | 2,722 |
| 7 | PaperWM | 2,614 |
| 8 | bismuth | 2,339 |
| 9 | niri | 1,690 |
| 10 | krohnkite | 1,584 |
| 11 | workspacer | 1,579 |
| 12 | AeroSpace | 1,208 |
| 13 | spacebar | 1,165 |
| 14 | quicktile | 856 |
| 15 | dotfiles | 815 |
| 16 | nog | 688 |
| 17 | taffybar | 685 |
| 18 | polonium | 682 |
| 19 | axyl-iso | 602 |
| 20 | JankyBorders | 576 |
| 21 | fancywm | 506 |
| 22 | nixpkgs-wayland | 466 |
| 23 | dwm-win32 | 441 |
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