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• herbstluftwm vs dwmdwm is a small dynamic tiling manager for X11, but most customisations require editing and recompiling its source code.
• herbstluftwm vs awesomeawesome supports tiling and floating layouts with programmable widgets and window rules, configured in Lua rather than at runtime through herbstclient.
• herbstluftwm vs spectrwmspectrwm is a minimal dynamic tiling manager with a single plain-text configuration file that runs on Linux and the BSDs.
• herbstluftwm vs xmonadxmonad tiles windows automatically instead of manually, configured as a full Haskell program with a large extension set in xmonad-contrib.
• herbstluftwm vs i3i3 uses a tree-based tiling layout with configurable key bindings on X11, set in a config file rather than changed live through a client tool.
• herbstluftwm vs StumpWMStumpWM is a keyboard-driven tiling manager for X11 reconfigurable live from Common Lisp, so runtime scripting requires learning Lisp instead of herbstclient.
• herbstluftwm vs QtileQtile is configured in Python with programmable layouts and widgets, and adds a Wayland back end alongside X11.
• herbstluftwm vs bspwmbspwm arranges windows as leaves of a binary tree and is controlled through shell commands, needing separate tools for key bindings and panels.
• herbstluftwm vs LeftWMArrange Linux windows with a tiling manager written in Rust.