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• Qtile vs awesomeawesome offers tiling and floating layouts with programmable widgets and window rules like Qtile, but it is configured in Lua and runs on X11 rather than Wayland.
• Qtile vs SwaySway brings an i3-style tiling workflow to Wayland and reads much of the i3 configuration format, so no Python is needed, though some X11 applications need compatibility layers.
• Qtile vs dwmdwm is a compact dynamic X11 window manager with tiling and floating layouts, customized by editing and recompiling its C source instead of a Python configuration.
• Qtile vs HyprlandHyprland is a Wayland-only tiling compositor with dynamic tiling, animations and extensive keyboard configuration, set up in its own config file rather than Python.
• Qtile vs i3i3 is a keyboard-controlled tiling manager with a tree-based layout and a plain configuration file instead of Python, but it runs on X11 only.
• Qtile vs xmonadxmonad provides automatic tiling on X11 with configuration written as a full Haskell program instead of Python, plus the xmonad-contrib extensions.
• Qtile vs LeftWMLeftWM is an MIT-licensed tiling manager written in Rust with configurable layouts, but bars and related components need separate configuration instead of Qtile's built-in widgets.
• Qtile vs PinnacleA tiling Wayland compositor inspired by AwesomeWM and configured in Lua or Rust.
• Qtile vs spectrwmA small dynamic tiling window manager for X11 that aims to stay out of the way.
• Qtile vs herbstluftwmA manual tiling window manager for X11 that is configured at runtime through the herbstclient tool.
• Qtile vs miracle-wmA hackable tiling Wayland compositor for Linux built on Mir, with i3-style tiling and animations.
• Qtile vs dwlA dwm-like dynamic tiling Wayland compositor built on the wlroots library.
• Qtile vs StumpWMA keyboard-driven tiling window manager for X11, written in and extensible with Common Lisp.
• Qtile vs niriA scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor that places windows in columns on an endless horizontal strip.
• Qtile vs bspwmbspwm tiles X11 windows as a binary tree and is controlled through shell commands, relying on separate tools for key bindings and panels instead of built-in widgets.
• Qtile vs riverA non-monolithic Wayland compositor that leaves window management to a separate program.