Linux Window Manager

VWM project is an extensible window manager for the console. Built on top of libpseudo and libviper, VWM is more visual alternative to Screen. Mozilla-style plugins allow for simple expandability: follow a few simple API rules and drop your shared object into a directory to have it added to the...

evilwm is a minimalist window manager for the X Window System. Minimalist here doesnt mean its too bare to be usable - it just means it omits a lot of the stuff that make other window managers unusable..

Compiz is a compositing window manager that uses 3D graphics acceleration via OpenGL. The project provides various new graphical effects and features on any desktop environment, including Gnome and KDE. - Window management has never looked so enticing: Through OpenGL accelerated compositing,...


Platforms: *nix

aewm is a minimalist window manager for X11. It has no nifty features, but is light on resources and extremely simple in appearance. It should eventually make a good reference implementation of the ICCCM. A few separate programs are included to handle running programs, switching between...


Platforms: *nix

FVWM project is an extremely powerful ICCCM-compliant multiple virtual desktop window manager for the X Window system. Development is active, and support is excellent. Check it out!. The Official FVWM Home Page


Platforms: *nix

manix is a window manager which aims to provide a full MacOS 8/9 interface, including an implementation of the Carbon API. manix is using X11 as the graphical backend. The window manager is not finished but should be useable. It will be part of the Manix Desktop which aims to implement the...


Platforms: *nix

OmegaWM is a window manager currently in the early stages of development. Key goals are that it be ICCCM and FreeDesktop.org compliant. Whats New in This Release: - Refactored the action system a bit - Added helper classes to iterate the frames, children and hotspots managed by the WM...


Platforms: *nix

Kahakai is a fork of the Waimea window manager, with the intent to create a language agnostic scriptable window manager, while maintaining the original features of Waimea, and extending upon them. Kahakai is pronounced with the ca in car, the ha in hard, and ki from kite. By "language...


Platforms: *nix

Karmen is a small and simple window manager for X. Karmen is designed to be easy to install and use. If the following points sound interesting, why not give it a try?. An easy-to-use window manager for X.


Platforms: *nix

Golem is a lightweight, fast window manager for X11 which is very customizable. Golems development has stagnated for a while and Jordan has given the project to Bruce Ashfield. Bruce is currently working on a new release which will have some existing patches applied..


Platforms: *nix

This is a small application (using GTK+) which lets you select your window manager. It looks for a file named .selectwmrc in the users directory which contains a list of window managers. When you start X it should show a list which lets you choose your window manager (by double clicking on it...


Platforms: *nix

cwm is a window manager for X11 initially inspired by evilwm. It developed out of modifications to evilwm, but eventually the code base of evilwm did not accomodate well for the new features added. So cwm was written from scratch. cwm has several novel features, including the ability to search...


Platforms: *nix

IceWM is a window manager for the X11 Window System. IceWMs goal is speed, simplicity, and not getting in the users way..


Platforms: *nix

Phluid is a window manager that emphasizes efficiency, speed, and beauty. It uses rastermans Imlib2 library as the image/font rendering backend. Phluid also attempts to be flexible and compliant with the ICCCM standard. Whats New in This Release: - Early support for decal system. - correct...


Platforms: *nix

Metacity is a lightweight window manager written by Havoc Pennington from Red Hat. The first version was 2.3, which was released in 2001. Metacity is implemented with the GTK+ 2.x toolkit, and so integrates well with the GNOME 2.x platform. In fact the intention is to remove the traditional...


Platforms: *nix

WindowLab project is a small and simple window manager of novel design. It has a click-to-focus but not raise-on-focus policy, a window resizing mechanism that allows one or many edges of a window to be changed in one action, and an innovative menubar that shares the same part of the screen as...


Platforms: *nix

BadWM is a minimalistic window manager for the X Window System licensed under the GNU General Public License.. BadWM - a minimalistic window manager


Platforms: *nix

Ratpoison is a simple Window Manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no rodent dependence. Ratpoison is largely modelled after GNU Screen which has done wonders in the virtual terminal market. The screen can be split into non-overlapping frames....


Platforms: *nix

MaxTo is a window manager that allows you to define screen regions that windows automatically maximize to, for pixel-perfect window arrangements. With MaxTo - whenever you maximize a window MaxTo places it into the correct region of your monitor. You can quickly move your windows around using...


Platforms: Windows, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server

Simple and lightweight tiling and floating window manager for X11. Started as a dwm fork with easier configuration, echinus became full-featured reparenting window manager with EWMH support. * easily configurable with one file in Xresources format * supports minimal subset of EWMH to be usable...


Platforms: *nix