Cygwin Gnome Window Manager

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,...

So its not a desktop and doesnt offer you a huge pile of useless options, just the facilities needed to run your X applications and at the same time having a friendly and easy to use interface. Objectives Pawm goals are to be simple, small and functional. Thats important, small :), there are...

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

Finder Window Manager is an application for managing all of your Mac OS X Finder window needs.This application allows you to create Window Sets to remember the size, placement, and just about all the view options of your open windows (there are a few minor settings such as label placement below...


Platforms: Mac

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

wmget is a dock app for the Window Maker window manager which makes it more convenient to perform long downloads in the background. It uses the excellent libcurl library, part of the cURL automated-download program, to perform file retrieval. This is useful if, like me, you tend to have dozens...


Platforms: *nix

AfterStep is a window manager for the Unix X Window System. Originally based on the look and feel of the NeXTStep interface, it provides end users with a consistent, clean, and elegant desktop. AfterSteps goal is to provide for flexibility of desktop configuration, improving aestetics, and...


Platforms: *nix

Toyd is an advanced next-generation Window Manager. Toyd is built on top of Aoof-Wm, an Advanced Object Oriented Framework designed specifically for the development of portable Window Management systems..


Platforms: *nix

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...


Platforms: *nix

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..


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

H-Town Dusk is a Gnome login manager theme. A Widescreen (1280x800) GDM I designed to celebrate my return to my old home-town of Houston, Tx.. Art - community of artists and those devoted to art. Digital art, skin art, themes, wallpaper art, traditional art, photography, poetry / prose. Art...


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

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...


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