Window Manager

gMUTOO is an elegant service launcher/stopper/monitor that resides in the window manager tray. gMUTOO has been mostly thought for the launch of daemons (ftpd, sshd, httpd and so on), but it can be used to start/stop pretty anything. For each entry of its launch menu, a monitored file can be...

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...

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

XSWM is a fast and light window manager for Linux/BSD based on EvilWM..


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

Scrotwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff. It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any configuration. It was written by hackers for hackers...


Platforms: *nix

CLFSWM is a 100% Common Lisp X11 window manager (based on Tinywm and Stumpwm. Many thanks to them).It can be driven only with the keyboard or with the mouse. A display contains a root frame and its children. A child can be a window or another frame. The root frame or its children can be the...


Platforms: *nix

AntiWM is a small and simple window manager with a focus on productivity and utility. Inspired by ratpoison, AntiWM is keyboard driven and handles all windows fullscreen.


Platforms: *nix