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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.


aewm - A minimalistic X11 window manager.
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.
Fast Light Window Manager - Derived from wm2. Source code and binaries available.
FluxBox - A fast compact window manager based on the Blackbox, but offering more features.
Generic Window Manager Manual - GWM is an X window manager you can program using LISP.
GNUstep.org - Official site of GNUstep: free implementation of NeXTStep/OpenStep specification.
Ion - Text-editorish, keyboard friendly window manager.
JD4X - A basic GUI windowing environment developed to support the Java programming language based on top of the X window system.
LinuxPlanet Window Managers Page - Reviews of, and tutorials on, window managers under Linux, for beginners.
The Mass Interactive Desktop - A desktop environment that looks like an IRIX desktop.
mlvwm - Macintosh Like Virtual Window Manager.
The Mlvwm + Kfm Site - How to create a mac-like desktop in linux.
Official AfterStep Development site - Site dedicated to Development of the AfterStep Window Manager. Includes HTMLized sources, daily activity log, and TODOs.
The Official AfterStep Site - NeXTStep-like windowmanager
Open Look Virtual Window Manager - Based on olwm. Allows large virtual desktops.
Openbox - A standards compliant light-weight extensible window manager.
Oroborus - A very minimalistic, but still fully configurable windowmanager.
pekwm - A good looking but lean windowmanager with support for dockapps, tabbed windows, automatic window manipulation, dynamic menus, key sequences.
Pie Menu Window Manager - Minimal window manager that uses pie menus.
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.
Window Manager Icons Distribution - a project to provide an efficient configurable icon distribution
WindowLab - A small and simple window manager of novel design.
wm2 - Really minimal window manager
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.