Directory of Window Managers Resources

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A window manager is system software that controls the placement and appearance of windows within a windowing system in a graphical user interface.

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• CDE
• Desktop Themes
• FVWM
• IceWM
• Window Maker

Resources in This Category

• Aewm

  http://www.red-bean.com/decklin/aewm/
  A minimalistic X11 window manager.

• AfterStep Applets

  http://www.tigr.net/afterstep/
  Home of the distribution of applications for the AfterStep window manager.

• amiwm

  http://www.lysator.liu.se/~marcus/amiwm.html
  X window manager that tries to look and feel like Amiga Workbench.

• B4Step Window Manager

  http://b4step.free.fr/
  B4Step is a Window Manager running under X11R6 with a different way to manage window banners. It can use OpenGL routines for animations, is Gnome compliant and has also a sound support.

• BadWM

  http://badwm.sourceforge.net/
  A minimalistic window manager for the X Window System.

• Blackbox

  http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/
  Light window manager, without all those annoying library dependencies.

• Enlightenment

  http://www.enlightenment.org/
  A window manager based on Enlightenment Foundation Libraries.

• Evilwm

  http://www.6809.org.uk/evilwm/
  A minimalist Window Manager for the X Window System.

• Fast Light Window Manager

  http://flwm.sourceforge.net/
  Derived from wm2. Source code and binaries available.

• FluxBox

  http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/
  A fast compact window manager based on the Blackbox, but offering more features.

• Generic Window Manager Manual

  http://tronche.com/gui/x/gwm/html-manual/
  GWM is an X window manager you can program using LISP.

• GNUstep.org

  http://www.gnustep.org/
  Official site of GNUstep: free implementation of NeXTStep/OpenStep specification.

• JD4X

  http://jdx.sourceforge.net/
  A basic GUI windowing environment developed to support the Java programming language based on top of the X window system.

• mlvwm

  http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~y-miyata/mlvwm.html
  Macintosh Like Virtual Window Manager.

• Official AfterStep Development site

  http://www.afterstep.org/
  Site dedicated to Development of the AfterStep Window Manager. Includes HTMLized sources, daily activity log, and TODOs.

• Openbox

  http://openbox.org/wiki/Main_Page
  A standards compliant light-weight extensible window manager.

• Oroborus

  http://www.oroborus.org/
  A very minimalistic, but still fully configurable windowmanager.

• pekwm

  http://pekwm.org/
  A good looking but lean windowmanager with support for dockapps, tabbed windows, automatic window manipulation, dynamic menus, key sequences.

• Pie Menu Window Manager

  http://www.crynwr.com/piewm/
  Minimal window manager that uses pie menus.

• Ratpoison Window Manager

  http://ratpoison.sourceforge.net/
  A simple Window Manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations.

• Sawfish

  http://sawfish.wikia.com/
  An extensible window manager using a Lisp-based scripting language. All window decorations are configurable and all user-interface policy is controlled through the extension language. This is no layer on top of twm, but a wholly new architecture.

• Scwm

  http://scwm.sourceforge.net/
  Scheme Constraints/Configurable Window Manager. A window manager with a powerful dynamic configuration language based on Guile Scheme.

• Small Window Manager

  http://www.small-window-manager.de/
  Minimal window manager intended for use with small screen sizes.

• The Stump Window Manager

  https://stumpwm.github.io/
  A tiling, keyboard driven X11 Window Manager written entirely in Common Lisp.

• VTWM

  http://www.vtwm.org/
  A virtual window manager for the X Window System. It is based on twm, and can be used just like twm. It provides multiple virtual screens, a 3D look, and lots of neat features.

• Window Manager Icons Distribution

  http://wm-icons.sourceforge.net/
  a project to provide an efficient configurable icon distribution

• Window Managers for X

  http://www.xwinman.org/
  Guide to window managers for the X Window System. Descriptions, screenshots and configuration files for all popular window managers, along with related resources, including a news and discussion area.

• WindowLab

  https://github.com/nickgravgaard/windowlab/
  A small and simple window manager of novel design.

• wm2

  http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/wm2/
  Really minimal window manager

• wmx

  http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/wmx/
  A window manager for X. It's based on wm2, but it's intended to provide a vehicle for features that fall outside the scope of the manifesto for the original wm2.

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