Window Managers for X
- 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.
AfterStep Applets - Home of the distribution of applications for the AfterStep window manager.
amiwm - X window manager that tries to look and feel like Amiga Workbench.
BadWM - A minimalistic window manager for the X Window System.
Blackbox - Light window manager, without all those annoying library dependencies.
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.
Enlightenment - A window manager based on Enlightenment Foundation Libraries.
Evilwm - A minimalist Window Manager for the X Window System.
Official AfterStep Development site - Site dedicated to Development of the AfterStep Window Manager. Includes HTMLized sources, daily activity log, and TODOs.
PWM - Lightweight window manager for X11 that lets multiple client windows attach to the same frame.
Ratpoison Window Manager - A simple Window Manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations.
ROX Desktop - A desktop environment with some features of RISC OS.
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.
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.
Small Window Manager - Minimal window manager intended for use with small screen sizes.
The Stump Window Manager - A tiling, keyboard driven X11 Window Manager written entirely in Common Lisp.
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.
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."
XD640 - A lightweight graphical desktop environment for X-Window designed for older computers running at 640x480 screen resolution.
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