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• dwm vs awesomeawesome keeps tiling and floating layouts on X11 but moves configuration from recompiled C source to Lua, and adds programmable widgets and window rules.
• dwm vs spectrwmspectrwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11 configured through a single plain-text file, and it also runs on the BSDs.
• dwm vs xmonadxmonad also tiles X11 windows automatically, but it is configured as a full Haskell program with a large extension set in xmonad-contrib instead of edited C source.
• dwm vs dwldwl brings dwm-style dynamic tiling to Wayland as a wlroots compositor, keeping the small C codebase and the edit-and-recompile approach to customisation.
• dwm vs i3i3 is also an X11 tiling window manager, but it uses a tree-based layout and a configuration file with key bindings, so there is no source editing or recompiling.
• dwm vs QtileQtile replaces source edits with Python configuration, offers programmable layouts and widgets, and provides both X11 and Wayland back ends.
• dwm vs herbstluftwmherbstluftwm uses manual tiling on X11 configured at runtime through herbstclient, so settings change live without recompiling or restarting.
• dwm vs StumpWMA keyboard-driven tiling window manager for X11, written in and extensible with Common Lisp.
• dwm vs bspwmbspwm arranges X11 windows as leaves of a binary tree and is controlled through shell commands, but it needs separate tools for key bindings and panels.
• dwm vs LeftWMArrange Linux windows with a tiling manager written in Rust.
• dwm vs cwmA portable version of OpenBSD's minimal, keyboard-driven cwm window manager for X11.
• dwm vs evilwmA minimalist, keyboard-controlled window manager for the X Window System with virtual desktops.