Which Is The Best Tiling Window Managers For Linux?

Last Updated on June 29, 2019

Insight: Which Is The Best Tiling Window Managers For Linux ?

It’s up to you to choose the best tiling window managers for Linux from the list below. We have curated the list of some of the useful and best window managers for Linux with tiling feature.

Which Is The Best Tiling Window Managers For Linux ?

1. awesome

Let’s start our list from this. awesome is an open source and free tiling window manager for Linux. It is considered as a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X.

Installation:

Run the following command to install awesome in Linux based operating systems:

CentOS/RHEL
sudo yum install awesome
Fedora:
sudo dnf install awesome  
Debian/Ubuntu:
sudo apt install awesome

2. i3

i3 is an open source and free tiling window manager. It uses xcb instead of Xlib. xcb has a much cleaner API and should be faster in quite a lot of situations.

Run the following command in your Linux to install i3 window manager.

CentOS/RHEL
sudo yum install i3
Fedora    
sudo dnf install i3
Debian/Ubuntu   
sudo apt install i3

3. Tilix

Tilix previously called Terminix is an advanced GTK3 tiling terminal emulator. It uses GTK+ 3 widget called VTE (Virtual Terminal Emulator). Tilix follows the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines.

Install Tilix in Linux:

CentOS/RHEL

sudo yum install tilix
Fedora
sudo dnf install tilix   
Debian/Ubuntu
sudo apt install tilix