labwc provides a Wayland compositor that stacks windows rather than tiling them.
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river vs BSPWM
How do river and BSPWM compare? Here are the facts side by side: pricing, platforms, open-source status and what each one is for.
| Directory detail | river | BSPWM |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | river separates the Wayland compositor from the window manager, allowing a compatible manager to be chosen. | Arrange desktop windows as leaves in a binary tree with bspwm, a tiling window manager that responds to X events. |
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| Type | Open-source project | Open-source project |
| Topic | ||
| Pricing | Not confirmed | Not confirmed |
| Platforms | Not recorded | Windows |
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| Language | English | English |
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