sara - simple and lightweight tiling window manager

Last Updated on July 12, 2021

sara is a simple and lightweight tiling window manager.

sara was originally a fork of catwm, now an offspring of dwm with a streamlined feature set, plus some bspwm.

sara is free and open source software.

Features include:

Modes:
- Tiling mode (master window with right-hand vertical stack).
- Monocle mode (fullscreen, but bar still visible).
- Fullscreen mode.
Behaviour:
- dwm-like:
  - tags.
  - Multihead support through Xinerama.
  - patch-like:
    - attachaside.
    - movestack.
    - pertag-like: layouts, master_size.
    - singularborders.
- bspwm-like:
  - keyboard event handling via external program (like sxhkd).
- monsterwm-like:
  - output desktop information for external parsing (like with shell script + lemonbar).
- no window borders.
- no window titles.
- easily hackable.

Website: github.com/gitluin/sara
Support:
Developer: gitluin
License: MIT license

sara is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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