berry is a healthy, bite-sized window manager written in C over the XLib library.
berry has two main dependencies: The XLib and Xft headers. berry is configured via its command-line client: berryc.
berry is a very simple program with only a handful of commands to manage its internal state and control active clients. This window manager does not handle keyboard input on its own. Instead, a program like sxhkd is needed to translate keypress events into berryc commands.
berry is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Controlled via a powerful command-line client, allowing users to control windows via a hotkey daemon such as sxhkd or expand functionality via shell scripts.
- Ability to view the internal state of active clients.
- Small, hackable source code.
- Extensible themeing options with double borders, title bars, and window text.
- Intuitively place new windows in unoccupied spaces.
- Virtual desktops.
- Compliant with a subset of ICCCM and EWMH. Additionally, berry implements its own properties on the x-server that are exposed to users.
Website: berrywm.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Joshua Ervin
License: MIT License
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|---|---|
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| Blackbox | Similar to the NeXT interface and Window Maker |
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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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