Top 15 X-tile Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

X-tile is an application that allows you to select a number of windows and tile them in different ways.
X-tile works on any X desktop (gnome, kde, xfce, lxde…).
The main features are: many tiling geometries, undo tiling, invert tiling order, optional system tray docking and menu, filter to avoid listing some windows, filter to check some windows by default, command line interface.

1. 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.......

2. Growl for Windows

Growl for Windows Growl for Windows is a Windows-compatible version of Growl, a notification system for Mac OS X.In general, applications integrate directly with Growl, but there are cases where it is essential to receive notifications from an application that does not have built-in Growl support (ex: Firefox, iTunes, Outlook). For applications that......

3. Growl

Growl Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X, it allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications. Why use Growl? It works out of the box. When you start up a Growl-enabled application, it will just work. There's no complicated setup; just install Growl once and your apps......

4. Skippy-XD

Skippy-XD Skippy-XD is a full-screen task-switcher for X11. You know that thing Mac OS X, Compiz and KWin do where you press a hotkey and suddenly you see miniature versions of all your windows at once? Skippy-XD does just that. It's most commonly known by Mac OS X's name for it......

5. 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.......

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. Crunch Bang Plus Plus

Crunch Bang Plus Plus CrunchBang++ is an open source and completely free [of cost (#!++ does include several of Debian’s non-free packages as well as the non-free repository)] computer operating system, designed as a continuation of the CrunchBang Linux distribution, based on newer Debian 8 (Jessie) packages and built around the minimal and lightweight......

8. 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......

9. WSRToolkit

WSRToolkit Text Macros: easily create boilerplate macros that inserts blocks of text at a single voice command. For example, at the end of my letters I say, "Sign off," and my name, company name and web site are inserted.Command Macros: allow you create step by step macros that utilize keyboard combinations.......

10. bspwm

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

11. Sway

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

12. SalineOS

SalineOS SalineOS is a lightweight and fast open-source operating system built on the Debian GNU/Linux repositories and uses Xfce as the desktop environment.......

13. Xfce-Terminal

Xfce-Terminal Terminal is a modern terminal emulator for the Unix/Linux desktop - primarily for the Xfce desktop environment. We developed it because we saw the need for a lightweight and easy to use terminal emulator in the Xfce desktop environment, that doesn’t require the user to install the GNOME platform, but......

14. SIMBL

SIMBL SIMBL (SIMple Bundle Loader) enables hacks and plugins to dynamically alter the behavior of applications and the Mac OS itself.......

15. CrunchBang Linux

CrunchBang Linux CrunchBang Linux is a Debian-based distribution offering a great blend of speed, style and substance. Using the nimble Openbox window and/or Xfce , it is highly customisable and provides a modern, full-featured GNU/Linux system without sacrificing performance.......