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.
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.
BadWM: A minimalistic window manager for the X Window System.
Blackbox: Light window manager, without all those annoying library dependencies.
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.
mlvwm: Macintosh Like Virtual Window Manager.
Official AfterStep Development site: Site dedicated to Development of the AfterStep Window Manager. Includes HTMLized sources, daily activity log, and TODOs.
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.
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.
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.
Small Window Manager: Minimal window manager intended for use with small screen sizes.
The Mass Interactive Desktop: A desktop environment that looks like an IRIX desktop.
The Mlvwm + Kfm Site: How to create a mac-like desktop in linux.
The Official AfterStep Site: NeXTStep-like windowmanager
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.
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
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.
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.