Lukol Directory: Computers: Software: Operating Systems: Graphic Subsystems: X11: Window Managers

Ion
Text-editorish, keyboard friendly window manager.
http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/

Sapphire Window Manager
Sapphire is a window manager for X11. It is small and fast while providing enough features to allow a person to accomplish a variety of tasks with a minimal amount of complexity. Sapphire also features a small code base written entirely in C++, root menus, and window decorations.
http://sapphire.sourceforge.net/

Fast Light Window Manager
Derived from wm2. Source code and binaries available.
http://flwm.sourceforge.net/

Official AfterStep Development site
Site dedicated to Development of the AfterStep Window Manager. Includes HTMLized sources, daily activity log, and TODOs.
http://afterstep.sourceforge.net/

Evilwm
A minimalist Window Manager for the X Window System.
http://evilwm.sourceforge.net/

The Official AfterStep Site
NeXTStep-like windowmanager
http://www.afterstep.org/

LinuxPlanet Window Managers Page
Reviews of, and tutorials on, window managers under Linux, for beginners.
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/sub...

wmx
wmx is also a window manager. Home page quote : "wmx is a window manager for X. It's based on wm2, and it retains a similar look and feel, but it's intended to provide an experimental vehicle for features that fall comfortably outside the scope of the manifesto for the original wm2."
http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/wmx/

Open Look Virtual Window Manager
Based on olwm. Allows large virtual desktops.
http://www.plig.org/xwinman/olvwm.html

The Mlvwm + Kfm Site
How to create a mac-like desktop in linux.
http://dimensional.com/~ds55/

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

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

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

The Stump Window Manager
A tiling, keyboard driven X11 Window Manager written entirely in Common Lisp.
http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/

PWM
Lightweight window manager for X11 that lets multiple client windows attach to the same frame.
http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/pwm/

B4Step Window Manager
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.
http://b4step.free.fr/

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

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

The Mass Interactive Desktop
A desktop environment that looks like an IRIX desktop.
http://5dwm.org/

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

The Scheme Configurable (Constraints?) Window Manager
A highly configurable X Window manager written and configurable with Guile Scheme. An absolute must for any hardcore Schemer who uses X Window. Now at version 0.99.6.1 with Gnome support, a CORBA interface, a complex constraint system for pseudointelligent window placement and management, extremely flexible decoration configurability, and a GUI configuration interface for non-Scheme hackers, plus an assortment of decoration themes.
http://scwm.sourceforge.net/

Openbox
A standards compliant light-weight extensible window manager.
http://icculus.org/openbox/

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

VTWM
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.
http://www.kolumbus.fi/jtp/personal/vtwm/

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

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

Window Manager Icons Project
a standardized icons distribution
http://wm-icons.sourceforge.net/

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

WindowLab
A small and simple window manager of novel design.
http://www.nickgravgaard.com/windowlab/

JD4X
A basic GUI windowing environment developed to support the Java programming language based on top of the X window system.
http://jdx.sourceforge.net/

Pie Menu Window Manager
Minimal window manager that uses pie menus.
http://www.crynwr.com/piewm/

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

XD640
A lightweight graphical desktop environment for X-Window designed for older computers running at 640x480 screen resolution.
http://www.oksidizer.com/software/xd640.ht...

GNUstep Project
A project devoted to providing an object oriented application framework to developers.
http://www.gnustep.org/

Sawfish
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.
http://sawmill.sourceforge.net/

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

Window Manager Improved 2
A minimalist window manager with a small memory footprint. It supports classic and dynamic window management with extended keyboard, mouse, and filesystem based remote control.
http://wmii.de/

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

ROX Desktop
A desktop environment with some features of RISC OS.
http://rox.sourceforge.net/

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

Sub Topics:
Desktop Themes
IceWM
CDE
FVWM
Window Maker


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