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• bspwm vs i3i3 uses a tree-based X11 tiling layout with key bindings built in, so no separate hotkey daemon is needed as with bspwm.
• bspwm vs awesomeawesome supports tiling and floating X11 layouts with programmable widgets and window rules, configured in Lua rather than driven by external shell commands.
• bspwm vs dwmdwm is a compact dynamic X11 manager with tiling and floating layouts, customized by editing and recompiling source instead of shell commands.
• bspwm vs herbstluftwmherbstluftwm is a manual tiling X11 manager scripted at runtime through herbstclient, with tiling and floating layers on every tag and virtual monitors.
• bspwm vs spectrwmspectrwm is a small dynamic tiling X11 manager with a single plain-text configuration file and built-in bindings, and it runs on Linux and the BSDs.
• bspwm vs QtileQtile is configured in Python with programmable layouts and widgets, and offers both X11 and Wayland back ends under the MIT license.
• bspwm vs xmonadxmonad provides automatic tiling on X11 with configuration written as a Haskell program and a large extension set in xmonad-contrib.
• bspwm vs StumpWMA keyboard-driven tiling window manager for X11, written in and extensible with Common Lisp.
• bspwm vs LeftWMLeftWM is a Rust tiling manager under MIT that separates layout logic from appearance, and like bspwm needs bars configured separately.