Top 15 ctrlwm Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Ctrlwm is a customisable tool for automatic windows positioning and sizing (e.g. tiling, resizing like Windows Aero Snap, and much more). It can be driven through either command line or screen corner/border actions (see daemon mode).

Tested with Metacity, Openbox, KDE, XFCE.

Features:
- Tile windows (different layouts)
- Resize and reposition window to take left/right/top/bottom half of the screen depending on the mouse position (similar to Aero Snap)
- Resize and reposition window to take specific sector defined by the grid depending on the mouse position, or move it to another workspace
- Go to empty workspace (Create one if there's none)
- Switch to next window (like Alt-Tab, but without bugs/features) ...

1. QuickTile

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2. AquaSnap

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3. Magnet (Windows Manager)

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4. Windownaut

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5. WinSplit Revolution

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6. FP-WindowManager

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7. Keypad Layout

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8. WinDock

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9. WinSize2

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10. SuperSwitcher

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11. Video in Picture for Vista

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12. ZMover

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13. x:choyce

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14. Better Window Manager

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15. Stay

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