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Stacking Window Managers

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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