Window Managers

Dzen is a general purpose messaging and notification program for X11. The project was desigend to be fully scriptable and integrate well with window managers like dwm and wmii..

asMon is a system monitor for Linux systems running afterstep, but should work on other window managers, too. I got fed up with most other wharf system monitors that didnt show the correct memory usage, and took up too much CPU. asmon also shows the exact amount of memory used and load avg by the...

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

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

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

asmem is a memory utilization monitor. This is an AfterStep look & feel memory utilization monitor for X Windows. I used this asmem tool written by alinden netcologne.de for quite a while. It served the purpose but I was very unsatisfied with its appearance. I wanted something that would...


Platforms: *nix

Kadu project was started in 2001 as a simple KDE API try-out. Eventually, it became the most popular Gadu-Gadu client for Linux and other Unices (and MacOS X). Kadu depends on Qt library version 3.x. Beginning with version 0.3.3 it does not require the K Desktop Environment libraries and can be...


Platforms: *nix

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

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

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

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

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

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

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