Gnome Window Managers

Enter aims at beign lightweight, yet highly configurable login manager for X. Supporting many different desktop setups. It is written in C with minimal dependencies, making it an excellent choice when using other lightweight window managers, such as fluxbox.. A lightweight graphical login manager... Platforms: *nix

Window Manager Icons purpose of the wm-icons project is to provide a themeable icon distribution for window managers.. Platforms: *nix

Wmconfig is a free tool for creating menu entries for various X window managers. Wmconfig uses a very simple configuration and it is fast and small. A special toolkit (Gtk or Qt / KDE) is not required and the menu entries may be edited with the text editor of your choice. The goal is to... Platforms: *nix

Fluxspace blends Fluxboxs window management with new desktop management capabilities. The project leverages existing components and the power of Python to help build a flexible desktop environment around Fluxbox and other lightweight window managers.. Platforms: *nix

The version 0.16 of the Enlightenment window manager was released in 2000, along with its dependencies Imlib and Fnlib, and remains in heavy usage today. While rumors of its death still circulate, DR16.6 was release on Nov 2nd, 2003, and it remains in development today with a long life still... 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

GAI Pager is an Enlightenment and a Waimea pager. Support for other window managers wont be hard to add, but at the moment it WONT work with any other window manager. As with all applets that uses the GAI library it can both be used as a Gnome 2 panel applet or a dockapp. To install it and... Platforms: *nix

Etoile intends to be an innovative GNUstep based user environment built from the ground up on highly modular and light components with project and document orientation in mind, in order to allow users to create their own workflow by reshaping or recombining provided Services (aka Applications),... Platforms: *nix

Project Elevate is an attempt to free users from the desktop metaphor. Project Elevate offers a fixed set of applications which allow casual users to perform the most usual tasks with their computer. I dont like the way current desktop environments look and feel. I find them too complicated... Platforms: *nix

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... Platforms: *nix

Tabble is a small alternative X shell which presents your programs in tabs for easy launch. Tabble is not meant to replace a window manager, just complement it. Light window managers benefit the most from tabble. The idea is that tabble is always on top so multiple launches can be made without... 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

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

QFE is full-featured FTN message editor with a graphical interface. QFE is written on C++/Qt and does not depend on either KDE or Gnome. All operations with FIDO message base use fidoconfig and smapi packages from HUSKY project. I write qfe for Linux, but it works on Win32, and in theory, it... Platforms: *nix

SimpleKDE is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX and UNIX based operating systems like Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenSolaris. Shortly it provides a graphical user interface on top of UNIX shells. SimpleKDE is not written from scratch; in fact, it is a fork of well known, powerful desktop... Platforms: *nix

vegUI is a JavaScript based AJAX framework and widget collection that allows you to build dynamic browser based Web applications that are also fast and flexible. vegUI was originally developed to serve as a foundation for the online browser-based mmorpg Lands of Kazram. So it was developed with... Platforms: *nix

Many users prefer Gnome Window Manager but cant go without Amarok. Gnome Play Video in Totem allows Gnome Users to view video or audio externally in Totem. This is very useful for Video Podcasts.. Platforms: *nix

More generally, it is intended to work with window managers that use the concept of "large desktops" instead of "multiple virtual desktops" as kwin does exclusively. Technically, it is a matter of respecting window managers standards as defined by EWMH... Platforms: *nix

Actual Window Rollup fills up the functionality gap that users, familiarized with Unix/Linux/MacOS window managers, notice while managing workspace in Windows. The program allows you to roll up and down windows by clicking on the special Roll Up button added to window's title bar. This feature... Platforms: Windows