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7 Best Free and Open Source Compositing Window Managers

A compositing window manager, or compositor, is a window manager that provides applications with an off-screen buffer for each window.

Compiz is a compositing window manager that uses 3D graphics acceleration via OpenGL. It provides various new graphical effects and features.

The Enlightenment (“E) window manager is a robust, flexible, highly configurable, graphically rich yet unobtrusive desktop environment for X.

Gala is a window and compositing manager based on libmutter. The program is designed by elementary for use with Pantheon.

The Xfce 4 Window Manager (xfwm4) is part of the Xfce Desktop Environment. xfwm4 can be run standalone.

KWin is the window manager for the KDE Plasma Desktop. KWin supports compositing, which means using 3D effects for handling windows.

Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library. Mutter is free and open source software.