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. You will not find buttons, icons, title bars, tool bars, or any of the other conventional GUI widgets.
These design decisions reflect the growing popularity of productive, customizable lisp based systems.
All of StumpWM’s keys are bound to named commands, which can be executed not only by keys but also from the input bar.
Key Features
- Emulates Emacs, a text editor, in many respects:
- Shares similar default keybindings.
- Allows rebinding of keys to other commands.
- Write commands.
- Shell scripting.
- Virtual desktops.
- Mode-line like the screen utility, and Emacs.
Website: stumpwm.github.io
Support: Documentation, GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Shawn Betts, Ryan M. Golbeck, Manuel Giraud, Andreas Scholta, and many others
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
StumpWM is written in Common Lisp. Learn Lisp 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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