Top 15 Compiz Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Compiz and Compiz Fusion are merging and are now known as Compiz.
Compiz is a compositing window manager. It has a flexible plugin interface which allows developers to use it for many different tasks.
Compiz Fusion is the result of a merge between the well-known Beryl composite window manager and Compiz Extras, a community set of improvements to the Compiz composite window manager. Compiz Fusion aims to provide an easy and fun-to-use windowed environment, allowing use of the graphics hardware to render each individual window and the entire screen, to provide some impressive effects, speed and usefulness. ...

1. Virtuoz

Virtuoz Virtuoz was designed to be a minimal and robust program that allows to have more than one desktop on Windows. It was inspired by Sysinternals Desktops, but uses a different approach, which doesn’t impose the limitations which Desktops is bound to.......

2. Mywe Desktop manager

Mywe Desktop manager Mywe Desktop manager is an all-around desktop enhancer that aims to improve your productivity, by providing you with a wide range of desktop functionality enhancements (Virtual desktop, autohide, live window, transparency, Lightbox, Z-Index).In order to provide you with these features, the application overlays a small access bar onto your screen,......

3. KWin

KWin KWin is a window manager for the X Window System, and is in the process of becoming a Wayland compositor. It is an integral part, and the default window manager of the Plasma Workspaces, but it can also be used on its own or with other desktop environments.......

4. Deskovery

Deskovery Deskovery is an all in one windows manager for OS X.- Windowshade (or minimize to title bars)- Change Transparency- Resize & align- Drag to resize- Pin in all spaces- 10.9 zoom button behaviour on Yosemite- Wobbly windows......

5. 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......

6. Gala

Gala Gala is a window manager / compositing manager and an integral part of Pantheon, the desktop environment of elementary OS.......

7. 12Ghosts WinControl

12Ghosts WinControl Control and manipulate windows with one click (or use a shortcut, timer, or batch file). Resize and position windows. Close or terminate programs if they dont respond. Check automatically for not-responding applications and restart them. Send keys or a complete text to other windows.Set the size and position of a......

8. Big Screen

Big Screen Big Screen is a software that can extend the user's screen either locally or through the network. Maximum four-fold expansion of user's desktop in the standard version, at least up to 2560x2048 pixel resolution.Big Screen is the abbreviations of Virtual mutil-head Graphics Card and its supporting tool. Big Screen is......

9. Cinch

Cinch Cinch is Aero Snap for Macs- it offers simple, mouse-driven window management by defining the left, right, and top edges of your screen as hot zones. Cinching to the left or right edges of the screen will resize the window to fill exactly half the screen, allowing you to easily......

10. Better Window Manager

Better Window Manager A tiny window management app for the Mac.......

11. WinDock

WinDock WinDock is a window manager ideal for large, or multi-monitor setups.Features:-Easy and intuitive drag-and-drop action to simplify moving and resizing Windows. -Highly customizable docking rules that specify how you want your windows to behave.-Multiple rule profiles/layouts that can be created and easily switched between.......

12. WinSize2

WinSize2 WinSize2 can move windows automatically to a predefined place and / or resize the width and/or height to a predefined size.If you use different screen resolutions you can store individual window positions for each of the resolutions.......

13. QuickTile

QuickTile A lightweight utility for allowing you to quickly snap windows to a tiling grid under your existing Linux window manager. Can be triggered via keyboard shortcuts, the command line, or D-Bus calls.......

14. WinSplit Revolution

WinSplit Revolution WinSplit Revolution is a small utility which allows you to easily organize your open windows by tiling, resizing and positioning them to make the best use of your desktop real estate.......

15. Keypad Layout

Keypad Layout Keypad Layout is an easy to use, open source window layout manager for Mac that lets you control windows using using Ctrl + Numeric Keypad combinations.......