Must have Window Managers for Linux

As its name implies, alloywm is a quite exquisite, aesthetic little window manager for X11. The premise of this window manager is not to be over-bloated like better known window managers such as KDE, and to keep the interface out of a user's way. Also,...

Athene is a commercial operating system developed by Rocklyte Systems for use in the home and office. Athene combines years of Rocklyte's R&D with the latest Linux technology to create one of the fastest operating systems available today.With boot times...

The Aurora Project is an attempt to create a new generation of Linux distributions. It will try to break free from old patterns and establish Linux as a serious world player.Currently, Aurora Project consists of the Aurora Desktop Environment which,...

awesome is an open source and tiling window manager initially based on a dwm code rewriting. It has a small codebase and footprint, it's extremely fast, stable, dynamic, and above all, awesome. It can be installed on any Linux distribution, directly...

Blackbox is an open source and freely distributed software project that has been designed from the ground up to act as a standalone or integrated window manager in the style of the more popular Openbox and Fluxbox projects. It is a lightweight and low on...

Bluetile is a tiling window manager for X, based on the xmonad project. Windows are arranged automatically to tile the screen without gaps or overlap, maximising screen use. Bluetile's focus lies on making the tiling paradigm easily accessible to...

From the developer of the deprecated SolusOS Linux operating system, we welcome you to Budgie Desktop, an open source software project that  integrates with the GNOME graphical desktop environment. Comprises of a WM, Session and Panel The graphical...

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...

CLFSWM is yet A(nother) Common Lisp FullScreen Window Manager.CLFSWM is a 100% Common Lisp X11 window manager (based on Tinywm and Stumpwm. Many thanks to them).It can be driven only with the keyboard or with the mouse. A display is divided in workspaces,...

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...