| 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. |
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