echinus

echinus is a lightweight window manager for X based on dwm's source code. It manages windows in tiled, maximized, and floating layouts. It is extremely small, rather fast, and supports Xft.

The echinus project features nice titlebars, multiple desktops, theming support, a simple configuration file, the ability to switch desktops with the mouse wheel, X bitmaps for title buttons, and true transparency support (through xcompmgr). There is no need to recompile or restart X to change its configuration.

Installation:

You need X11 and Xft headers to compile echinus wm and the pkg-config tool.
Packages containing this stuff are probably named libx11-dev and libxft-dev
(note "-dev" suffix).

% make
% make install

On new install:

% make installconfig

What is new in this release:

• This release brings a lot of changes, including new mouse handling code, stability fixes, and the ability to run without a configuration file.

What is new in version 0.4.7:

• This version features a number of speed improvements, code cleanups, and improved ICCM compatibility.

What is new in version 0.4.5:

• This version adds the snap configuration variable, implements the _NET_WORKAREA atom, and fixes a bug with gtk windows unmapping themselves behind our back.

What is new in version 0.4.4:

• This version features stability fixes on 64-bit platforms, a new manual page, and multi-monitor configuration improvements.

What is new in version 0.4.1:

• Fix title appearing on tiled windows

What is new in version 0.3.8:

• ReparentNotify is handled properly, and a nasty bug causing a crash when launching the first window was eliminated.

What is new in version 0.3.7:

• This release adds _NET_WM_HIDDEN support, fixes a bug in tiling layout with more than two clients, and can be run with a system-wide configuration file (without ~/.echinus).
• Running on an X server without Xrandr support should also be fixed.

What is new in version 0.3.6:

• This release adds multihead support and new focus policies.