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• awesome vs dwmdwm offers a compact dynamic X11 window manager with tiling and floating layouts, but many customizations mean editing and recompiling its source rather than Lua configuration.
• awesome vs QtileQtile swaps Lua for Python configuration with programmable layouts and widgets, and offers both X11 and Wayland back ends under the MIT license.
• awesome vs herbstluftwmherbstluftwm is a manual tiling X11 manager configured live through herbstclient, so you arrange frames yourself instead of relying on automatic layouts.
• awesome vs i3i3 keeps a keyboard-controlled X11 tiling workflow but uses a tree-based layout and a plain configuration file instead of Lua scripting and programmable widgets.
• awesome vs StumpWMStumpWM is a keyboard-driven X11 tiling manager that can be reprogrammed live in Common Lisp, with a minimal look and no built-in decorations.
• awesome vs xmonadxmonad offers automatic tiling on X11 with configuration written as a full Haskell program and many extensions in xmonad-contrib, instead of Lua.
• awesome vs spectrwmspectrwm is a small ISC-licensed dynamic tiling X11 manager with a single plain-text configuration file, and it also runs on the BSDs.
• awesome vs bspwmbspwm manages X11 windows as a binary tree controlled through shell commands, and needs separate tools for key bindings and panels that awesome provides itself.
• awesome vs OpenboxManage X11 windows with a configurable stacking window manager.
• awesome vs LeftWMArrange Linux windows with a tiling manager written in Rust.
• awesome vs FVWM3A highly configurable X11 window manager, the successor to fvwm2, with multi-monitor support.