2bwm is a fast floating window manager, with the particularity of having two borders, written over the XCB library and derived from mcwm.
The window manager can be fully controlled from the keyboard, but you can use a pointing device to move, resize, and raise/lower windows. It doesn’t come with any bar or panel.
2bwm is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Teleport windows in the corners.
- Teleport windows in the {top,middle,bottom} center.
- Teleport windows to cover a half of the monitor.
- Add offsets around the monitor.
- Multiply / Divide window’s width or height by 2.
- Grow / Shrink windows keeping aspect ratio.
- Move / Resize windows by two user defined amount.
- 2 borders fully customizable that show the window status.
Website: github.com/venam/2bwm
Support:
Developer: Patrick Louis
License: Open Source (not explicitly specified which license)
2bWM is configured at compile time and anything you might want to change is in the config.h file, from colors to keybinds.
2bwm is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
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|---|---|
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| Worm | Tiny, dynamic, tag-based window manager |
| Blackbox | Similar to the NeXT interface and Window Maker |
| Enlightenment | Focuses on pushing the limits of existing technologies |
| PekWM | Originally based on the aewm++ window manager |
| Marco | MATE default window manager |
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| cwm | OpenBSD fork of calmwn, a clean and lightweight window manager |
| IceWM | Win95-OS/2-Motif-like window manager |
| Sawfish | Extensible window manager using an Emacs Lisp-like scripting language |
| Moksha | Modern iteration of the Enlightenment window manager |
| Magpie | X11 window manager and compositor library |
| sowm | Itsy bitsy floating window manager |
| Compiz | OpenGL window and compositing manager |
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