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Tiling Window Managers

Notion – tiling, tabbed window manager

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Notion is a tiling, tabbed window manager for the X window system. The program is traditionally written to be very usable by mainly using the keyboard.

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wmderland – X11 tiling window manager

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

wmderland is an X11 tiling window manager using space partitioning trees with no bloated features and a tiny disk footprint.

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Ratpoison – simple window manager

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no fat library dependencies. It is largely modelled after GNU Screen.

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EXWM – full-featured tiling X window manager for Emacs

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager) is a full-featured tiling X window manager for Emacs built on top of XELB.

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herbstluftwm – manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib. herbstluftwm is written from scratch.

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bspwm – tiling window manager that represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

bspwm is a tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning. It represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree.

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StumpWM – tiling, keyboard driven X11 window manager

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

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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i3 – improved tiling window manager

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

i3 is a tiling window manager, completely written from scratch. i3 is primarily targeted at advanced users and developers.

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Compositing Window Managers

sway – tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Sway is an i3-compatible tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11.

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Stacking Window Managers

FVWM – ICCCM-compliant multiple virtual desktop window manager

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

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

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

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

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

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

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

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

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

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

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

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

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

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

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

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

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

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

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

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

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

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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