Linux Window Manager

Volume.app is a small graphical software utility enabling quick and convenient control of a computers audio volume level. Volume.app is intended for use on Linux/Unix systems in conjunction with an X window manager that supports dockable applications ("dockapps") such as AfterStep, BlackBox, or...

xgestures is an x gesture program, inspired by all-in-one-gestures for firefox. By clicking a mouse button (while possibly pressing a modifyer) and performing a movement sequence (composed of Up, Down, Left and Right) you can perform various actions around your desktop. Currently, only the...

SlackE17 is a project of building and distributing the new Enlightenment DR17 (E17) window manager for the Linux Slackware distribution. E17 is under heavy development but is stable enough for everyday use even if there was no official release yet.


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Oroborus basically is a really minimalistic window manager, which is about 75kb small on a PowerPC machine and about 63kb on an x86 machine. "Minimalistic" means that the Oroborus window manager doesnt provide some things other window managers provide. So you will need some external tools also...


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Scientific Linux is a Linux release put together by various labs and universities around the world. Scientific Linuxs primary purpose is to reduce duplicated effort of the labs, and to have a common install base for the various experimentors. The base Scientific Linux distribution is basically...


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QtOIDUA is a graphical user interface for OIDUA for Linux and Mac OS X written in C++ using Qt. It is completely free and open source, and is licensed under the GNU GPL. QtOIDUA supports all the features of OIDUA and makes it easy to create fields, add directories, choose colors, and set...


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Backstep is a program that draws icons for minimized windows on your desktop. It doesnt depend on the window manager or on a desktop-drawing program (for example, I use it with Nautilus). It is meant to work with window managers that are EWHM compliant. However, I only know for sure that it...


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Welcome to bbconf, the all-in-one blackbox configuration tool. Never heard of blackbox before? Well, lets just say that its the best Window Manager for X thats out "there" in our humble opinion. Simply put, this little utility here has such lofty goals as being the one place where you can...


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Xfce 4 Notes Plugin provides you a simple text editor in a little window. It is light and doesn’t require lots of memory therefore it is ideal to use for notes. Notes are especially useful for temporary stuff. The plugin supports multiple notes through a notebook. The aspect of the window is...


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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..


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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...


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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...


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Kaboot Linux Operating system aims to provide an operating system which you can take anywhere and has all your favourite programs on. Kaboot operating system is avaliable as a Live CD or Live USB you can take with you anywhere. A number of different versions are avaliable, two optimised for...


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


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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...


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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...


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


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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...


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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...


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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...


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