StumpWM is a tiling, window manager written entirely in Common Lisp. It attempts to be highly customizable while relying entirely on the keyboard for input.
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Category: Desktop
i3 – improved tiling window manager
i3 is a tiling window manager, completely written from scratch. i3 is primarily targeted at advanced users and developers.
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sway – tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager
Sway is an i3-compatible tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11.
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FVWM – ICCCM-compliant multiple virtual desktop window manager
FVWM is a powerful ICCCM2 compliant multiple virtual desktop window manager for the X Window System. It was originally derived from twm.
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Compiz – OpenGL compositing manager
Compiz is a compositing window manager that uses 3D graphics acceleration via OpenGL. It provides various new graphical effects and features.
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Blackbox – window manager
Blackbox is a window manager for the X Window System. Its design is meant to be visually minimalist and fast.
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WindowMaker – window manager
Window Maker is a window manager originally designed to provide integration support for the GNUstep Desktop Environment.
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Sawfish – extensible window manager
Sawfish (formerly known as Sawmill) is an extensible window manager using an Emacs Lisp-like scripting language called Librep.
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Pekwm – window manager
The Pek Window Manager is a small, flexible window manager which was originally based on the aewm++ window manager.
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Openbox – window manager with extensive standards support
Openbox is a window manager for the X11 windowing system. It was originally based on Blackbox and currently remains very similar.
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IceWM – stacking window manager
IceWM is a stacking window manager for the X Window System. It is fast and memory-efficient, and it provides many different looks.
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Fluxbox – window manager for X
Fluxbox is a window manager that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. It is very light on resources and easy to handle.
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Enlightenment – window manager and desktop environment
The Enlightenment (“E) window manager is a robust, flexible, highly configurable, graphically rich yet unobtrusive desktop environment for X.
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evilwm – minimalist window manager
evilwm is a minimalist window manager for the X Window System. It works by drawing a one pixel border around each window.
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Marco – MATE default window manager
Marco is a fork of GNOME Metacity. Marco is the default window manager for MATE, the continuation of GNOME 2.
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Worm – tiny, dynamic, tag-based window manager
Worm is a tiny, dynamic, tag-based window manager. It supports both a floating mode and master-stack tiling with gaps and struts.
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2bwm – fast floating (stacking) window manager
2bwm is a fast, floating, free and open source window manager, with the particularity of having two borders, written over the XCB library.
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cwm – Calm Window Manager – stacking window manager
cwm (Calm Window Manager) is an OpenBSD fork of calmwn, a clean and lightweight stacking window manager. cwm is free and open source software.
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Gala – window and compositing manager based on libmutter
Gala is a window and compositing manager based on libmutter. The program is designed by elementary for use with Pantheon.
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berry – bite-sized window manager
berry is a healthy, bite-sized window manager written in C over the XLib library and the Xft headers. berry is free and open source software.
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