Window Managers

IceWM is a window manager for the X11 Window System. IceWMs goal is speed, simplicity, and not getting in the users way..

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...

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

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

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

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

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

The UDE-Project is creating a new WM which will be a complete GUI in future. The project does not use any special GUI-Libraries such as QT or GTK+. We just use the standard Xlibs (both to keep UDE fast and slim and to avoid dependencies). UDE has a completely original LooknFeel, its not just...


Platforms: *nix

Xlayout is a simple utility for controlling X11 windows and pointer from the console or remotely. It can alter the geometry of a window, the position of the pointer, hide a window or send it to the top, list all windows, and get the current pointer position. For use in scripts, it has the...


Platforms: *nix

Phpmole is an integrated desktop development environment. Phpmole grew out of a port of Moleskine, since then it has grown and been redesigned to be a framework for a modulized development environment. For users it offers syntax highlighting, integrated help, a WYSIWG HTML editor, and remote...


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

Fluxbox is yet another windowmanager for X. Fluxbox is based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. Fluxbox looks like blackbox and handles styles, colors, window placement and similar thing exactly like blackbox (100% theme/style compability)..


Platforms: *nix

fpcbol is a desktop user interface written for children and people who want simplicity and speed. fpcbol project is designed to be as beautiful and simple as possible. It has no menus, just icons to click. It features parental control for children. It has been tested successfully on Debian,...


Platforms: *nix

wmtheme is a utility which, generally speaking, allows you to perform certain operations on themes by name. For example, to rename do wmtheme -r oldname newname, or to activate do wmtheme name. Furthermore, it takes great care to make installation painless, in spite of evolving formats,...


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

NxServLiv allow compressed remote X sessions using NoMachines (X11 based) NX libraries. It is like an SSH terminal, but graphical. It works on network connection types ranging from modem to LAN, with different compression ratios. It was originally developed for the Spanish distribution LiVux.....


Platforms: *nix

wmMand is a Window Maker dockapp that allows you to browse or explore the Mandelbrot fractal. Whats New in This Release: - The primary difference in this release is the focus handling. - Now the keyboard isnt explicitly grabbed whenever the pointer is inside the small window, and unhandled...


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