Top 15 Openbox Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Openbox is a highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support.

The *box visual style is well known for its minimalistic appearance. Openbox uses the *box visual style, while providing a greater number of options for theme developers than previous *box implementations. The theme documentation describes the full range of options found in Openbox themes.

Openbox lets you bring the latest applications outside of a full desktop environment. Most modern applications have been written with GNOME and KDE in mind. With support for the latest freedesktop.org standards, as well as careful adherence to previous standards, Openbox provides an environment where applications work the way they were designed to.

1. Snowlinux

Snowlinux Snowlinux is a set of Linux distributions based on Debian 's latest stable release and featuring four different desktop environments - GNOME , KDE , LXDE & Xfce . It aims to be user-friendly, incorporating many useful tweaks and carefully selected software applications.......

2. Fluxbox

Fluxbox Fluxbox is a windowmanager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. It is very light on resources and easy to handle but yet full of features to make an easy, and extremely fast, desktop experience. It is built using C++ and licensed under the MIT-License.......

3. Bluetile

Bluetile Bluetile is a tiling window manager for Linux, designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment. It provides both a traditional, stacking layout mode as well as tiling layouts where windows are arranged to use the entire screen without overlapping. Bluetile tries to make the tiling paradigm easily accessible to......

4. Magnet (Windows Manager)

Magnet (Windows Manager) Every time you want to copy content from one app to the other, compare files side by side or multitask in any other way, you need all the windows arranged accordingly. Magnet makes this process clean and simple. In just one drag to the edge, you snap any window into......

5. Contexts

Contexts Contexts is built for speed. The interface always responds instantly so you can always remain in flow.Applications without windows are also listed. Because you should never have to think about whether an app has an open window or not.Do you use multiple displays? You can get a sidebar on each......

6. Sizer

Sizer Sizer is a freeware utility that allows you to resize any window to an exact, predefined size. This is extremely useful when designing web pages, as it allows you to see how the page will look when viewed at a smaller size. The utility is also handy when compiling screen-shots......

7. Slicer

Slicer Slicer is an invaluable window management app for OS X. Watch a demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u7nvEWjZuk Slicer lets you...... Slice any window to 2/3, 1/3, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8th screen, etc... Work beautifully on dual-monitor setups... Mix and match applications in your layouts... Use every pixel of your screen for maximum......

8. altdrag

altdrag AltDrag allows you to move and resize windows much easier. When you have it running you can simply hold down the Alt key and then use your mouse to drag any window, and it doesn't matter where in the window you click. This is especially useful in netbooks, with respect......

9. Yakuake

Yakuake Yakuake is a drop-down (Quake-style) terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology. Its design was inspired from consoles in computer games such as Quake which slide down from the top of the screen when a key is pressed, and slide back up when the key is pressed again.Yakuake, in the......

10. WMFS²

WMFS² WMFS² is a lightweight and highly configurable tiling window manager for X written in C. WMFS² is a free software distributed under the BSD license. It can be driven from keyboard or mouse and its configuration stands in one text file, easily understandable.......

11. Terra

Terra Terra is a GTK+3.0 based terminal emulator with useful user interface, it also supports multiple terminals with splitting screen horizontally or vertically.......

12. Baobab

Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer is a graphical, menu-driven application to analyse disk usage in any Gnome environment. Disk Usage Analyzer can easily scan either the whole filesystem tree, or a specific user-requested directory branch (local or remote).It also auto-detects in real-time any changes made to your home directory as far as......

13. GNOME Launch Box

GNOME Launch Box Launch Box is generally an application launcher. It's very influenced by Quicksilver for Mac OSX. Remember that this is only a first release so don't get your hopes up too much. Launch Box is written for the GNOME 2.10 platform and depends on GTK+ 2.6, evolution-data-server 1.2 and gnome-menus. These......

14. Sawfish

Sawfish Sawfish is an extensible window manager using a Lisp-based scripting language. Its policy is very minimal compared to most window managers. Its aim is simply to manage windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible. All high-level WM functions are implemented in Lisp for future extensibility or redefinition.FEATURES: Powerful......

15. Font Manager

Font Manager Font Manager is not intended to be a professional-grade font management solution, but rather a simple application suitable for the needs of most desktop users.......