Notion is a tiling, tabbed window manager for the X window system. It divides your screen into tiles which can be stacked, rearranged, split into sizes etc.
The program is traditionally written to be very usable by mainly using the keyboard but it’s possible to use a mixture of keyboard and mouse.
Notion was originally a fork of Ion. It primarily targets Linux.
Key Features
- Workspaces: each workspace has its own tiling.
- Multihead: the mod_xinerama plugin provides dual-monitor support.
- RandR: mod_xrandr picks up changes in the multihead configuration, without the need for restarting Notion.
- Supports powerful extension by Lua scripting.
Website: notionwm.net
Support: Keyboard Quick Reference, GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Notion team
License: Slightly modified GNU Lesser General Public License license Version 2.1
Notion is written in C and Lua. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn Lua with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| X11 Tiling Window Managers | |
|---|---|
| i3 | Improved tiling window manager |
| StumpWM | Common Lisp window manager |
| bspwm | Based on binary space partitioning |
| EXWM | Full-featured tiling X window manager for Emacs |
| herbstluftwm | Basic tiling concept is that the layout is represented by a binary tree |
| wmderland | Offers no bloated features, an easy-to-use config, and a very small footprint |
| Notion | Originally a fork of Ion |
| Ratpoison | Keyboard-only window manager |
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