Top 15 Ratpoison Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no rodent dependence. The screen can be split into non-overlapping frames. All windows are kept maximized inside their frames to take full advantage of your precious screen real estate. All interaction with the window manager is done through keystrokes.

1. wmii

wmii wmii is a small, dynamic window manager for X11. It is scriptable, has a 9p filesystem interface and supports classic and tiling (acme-like) window management. It aims to maintain a small and clean (read hackable and beautiful) codebase.......

2. Xmonad

Xmonad xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell. In a normal WM, you spend half your time aligning and searching for windows. xmonad makes work easier, by automating this.......

3. awesome

awesome awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast, extensible and licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license.It is primarily targeted at power users, developers and any people dealing with every day computing tasks and who want to have fine-grained control on theirs graphical......

4. i3

i3 i3 is a dynamic tiling window manager with clean, readable and documented code, featuring extended Xinerama support, usage of libxcb instead of xlib and several improvements over wmii.......

5. Windawesome

Windawesome Windawesome (pronounced - contrary to what you would expect from the way it is written - Windows-om, not Wind-awesome) is a highly customizable tiling/dynamic window manager with multi-monitor support for Windows, which works on top of explorer.exe and not as a shell replacement. It is heavily inspired by bug.n, but......

6. Mosaico

Mosaico Mosaico is a tiling window manager for Windows. It saves the position of the windows on your desktop so that you can restore them later. It also tiles them so that they fill the whole screen surface and you get......

7. 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.......

8. 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.......

9. qtile

qtile Qtile is a full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written in Python. Qtile is simple, small, and extensible. It's easy to write your own layouts, widgets, and built-in commands.Qtile is written and configured entirely in Python, which means you can leverage the full power and flexibility of the language to make......

10. Sway

Sway It works with your existing i3 configuration and supports most of i3's features, and a few extras.......

11. SizeUp

SizeUp SizeUp allows you to quickly position a window to fill exactly half the screen (splitscreen), a quarter of the screen (quadrant), full screen, or centered via the menu bar or configurable system-wide shortcuts (hotkeys). Similar to "tiled windows" functionality available on other operating systems.Additional features include moving windows from one......

12. bspwm

bspwm bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning......

13. TurboTop

TurboTop Like the "Always on Top" feature that some programs have? TurboTop lets you set any window to be "Always on Top!"Taskbar With TurboTop Icon (on far right)You're probably familiar with the "Always on Top" feature of some programs. This allows their window to "float" above other windows even when it......

14. WindowGrid

WindowGrid OVERVIEWWindowGrid is a modern window management program that allows the user to quickly and easily layout their windows on a dynamic grid.WindowGrid gives functionality to the normally useless right mouse button when moving a window. Doing this will enable the grid snap mode.FEATURES+ Simple to control+ Portable and Installable+ Works......

15. Zones for Mac

Zones for Mac Useful window arrangement ("snap-to-edge") utility that works well with multiple screens.......