Top 15 Windawesome Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

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 tries to go further. Windawesome is (mostly) written in C# and is scriptable and pluggable in IronRuby, IronPython and any .NET language that compiles down to an assembly. Requires .NET Framework 4 Client Profile, Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable and IronRuby/IronPython DLLs. The main bundle comes with 3 configuration files (2 in Python, 1 in Ruby), 3 layouts (2 built-in and one as a C# DLL), a couple of Plugins and many Widgets, one of which is written in Ruby. Works with 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8. Goes under the GNU General Public License version 2. ...

1. 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.......

2. 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......

3. AeroSnap

AeroSnap AeroSnap offers the snap feature of Windows 7 on Windows XP and Vista. It is a simple application that allows you to resize, arrange or maximize your desktop windows with just dragndrop.Simple drag a window to a side of your desktop to snap it or drag it to the top......

4. WindowSpace

WindowSpace WindowSpace is a powerful desktop enhancement utility for large monitors, widescreens and multi-monitor systems. Once installed, it allows you to manipulate windows in many new amazing ways – snap windows to the screen edges and other windows, move and resize them with keyboard shortcuts, maximize vertically or horizontally, pin on......

5. reSizer

reSizer reSizer is a system utility that enables keyboard shortcuts to focus, move, resize and change other window properties in a fast and intuitive way without even touching the mouse.Features:Keyboard shortcuts for moving and resizing active windows.Change the opacity and always-on-top properties.Instant window placement to fit specific areas on the screen.Faster-switching......

6. 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......

7. 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.......

8. Ratpoison

Ratpoison 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......

9. 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......

10. 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.......

11. BetterSnapTool

BetterSnapTool BetterSnapTool is a utility that mimics Windows 7 Aero snap, allowing you to easily manage your window positions and sizes by either dragging them to one of your screens corners or to the top, left or right side of your screen. This lets you easily maximize your windows or position......

12. 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.......

13. bspwm

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

14. DisplayFusion

DisplayFusion DisplayFusion will make your dual monitor (or triple monitor or more) experience smooth and painless. With DisplayFusion you can add a taskbar to every monitor that works and looks just like the Windows Taskbar. Or take advantage of advanced multi-monitor wallpaper support, Flickr integration for image searching and fully customizable......

15. 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......