Window Managers

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...

JD4X project is a basic GUI Windowing Environment developed to support the Java Programming Language based on top of the X Window system. It was developed with the intention of providing a Java environment that allows Java programmers to build and extend a windowing system purely in Java....

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

virtualDesktopTools is a set of tools for handling X Window virtual desktops. It makes it possible to switch the virtual desktop to the one indexed by a command line argument, and displays the number of desktops and index of the currently selected one. It should work with all EWMH-compliant...


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

PLWM is a Python package, containing classes suitable for implementing a window manager. PLWM is also a window manager, using the PLWM package. Whats New in This Release: - This is mostly a bug fix release, to get the latest set of fixes out the door. - Distutils is now used to build and...


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

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

Oroborus Theme Changer is an app for changing the theme in the Oroborus window manager. Oroborus Theme Changer is an app for changing the theme in the Oroborus window manager. To use the app just #cp otc /usr/bin It presumes your theme directory is located at /usr/share/oroborus/themes -...


Platforms: *nix

Sonic-Rainbow is a graphical multi-media player for Linux systems. It provides an Easy to Use complete GUI interface that will run on most Linux based Window Managers such as KDE, ICEWM, XFCE, GNOME etc.... It can be downloaded in binary and source form with pre-compiled Mandrake 9.0 rpm's...


Platforms: *nix

WMPal is a useless dockapp that gives you an animated pal on your desktop. WMPal runs in window managers that support dock apps such as Openbox and Window Maker.


Platforms: *nix

Wumwum is a window manager manager. It manages window managers so that they place your windows automatically the way a tile-based window manager (ion or awesome) would do it. This way you get the nice graphics of modern window managers and the efficiency of keyboard driven tiling-based managers....


Platforms: *nix

DiskIOSpace is a screenlet that shows the load of HDD and I/O of device/partition. WARNING! Screenlet depends on iostat utility that's located in the sysstat package! You needed to install systat on your system! Led Bar Gauge : Faded LED bar meand device I/O, while Bright leds means partition...


Platforms: *nix

Dropbox Screenlet is a desktop screenlet to monitor the current status of the file-syncing service Dropbox. - Displays the output of the 'dropbox status' command - Displays current quota and use of the quota - Opens local Dropbox folder on mouse click - Supports drag and dropping into local...


Platforms: *nix