Left is a tiling window manager. LeftWM is designed to do one thing and to do that one thing well: be a window manager.
It has been built from the very beginning to support multiple screens and has been built around ultrawide monitors.
This is free and open source software.
Website: leftwm.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Lex Childs
License: MIT License
LeftWM is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials
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