Best Window Managers for Linux

MATE is an open source desktop environment, a fork of the GNOME 2 window manager, specifically designed to be used by Linux OS developers who want to create lightweight, yet usable distributions that run on low-end computers. Similar to GNOME Classic Just...

Cinnamon is an open source project that provides users with a full featured desktop environment for GNU/Linux operating systems. It is a fork of the GNOME Shell user interface distributed with the GNOME project. It has been designed from the ground up to...

Trinity Desktop Environment is an open source and totally free software project that has been designed from the ground up as an unofficial continuation of the deprecated KDE 3.5.x desktop environment created by the KDE Project and implemented in numerous...

Compiz (formerly Beryl and Compiz Fusion) is a free, portable and open source software project that has been designed from the offset to act as a compositing window manager for GNU/Linux operating systems. It is in charge of the astonishing desktop...

LXQt is an open source and totally free desktop environment for the GNU/Linux platform. It is the next generation of the LXDE and Razor-qt projects, providing users with a traditional, lightweight, yet modern graphical environment designed to replace the...

The UDE-Project is creating a new WM which will be a complete GUI in future. The project does not use any special GUI-Libraries such as QT or GTK+.We just use the standard Xlibs (both to keep UDE fast and slim and to avoid dependencies).UDE has a...

Pantheon is an open source and free project that provides users with a unique, superb, magnificent and modern desktop environment designed from scratch. It is the default desktop environment of the popular elementaryOS Linux distribution.Combines elements...

Xfce is an open source and freely distributed project that provides users with a standards-compliant and lightweight desktop environment for GNU/Linux operating systems. It has been designed from the ground up to be fast, while still being easy to use and...

gnome-desktop is an open source and completely free package that contains the libgnome-desktop library, the gnome-about program and desktop-wide documents, which are essential components of the for the GNOME desktop environment. Not the GNOME desktop...

Multi-Cursor Window Manager is a modified Unix window manager which provides multiple cursors. This allows multiple users to simultaneously interact with a Unix desktop environment. Using a modified x2x client users can capture the keyboard and mouse...