Free Window Managers for Linux
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...
Wmconfig is an open source, freely distributed and multi-platform command-line software specifically engineered to generate menus for many X11-based window managers, or for your desktop environment.Does not require Qt or GTK+The application has been...
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...
Enlightenment is a window manager compatible with the X Window System (X11) and many Linux operating systems. Some will prefer to call it a desktop environment. While Enlightenment is one of those lightweight desktop environments for Linux/UNIX...
JWM (also known as Joe's Window Manager) is an open source, highly customizable, free and lightweight window manager implemented in C and designed especially for the X Window System, supporting all POSIX-compliant operating systems, including...
Ratpoison is an open source software project crafted as a very simple, minimalistic, fast and lightweight window manager for Linux and UNIX-like operating systems. It is designed to run on top of the X11 Windows System, as an alternative to minimalist...
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...
GNUstep is an object-oriented, cross-platform, free, open source, easy-to-use, mature, reliable and powerful framework that can be used to develop advanced graphical desktop and server applications.Being based on the OpenStep specification, the GNUstep...
dvtm (dynamic virtual terminal manager) is an open source, freely distributed and cross-platform software project that has been designed from the offset to act as window manager for Linux and UNIX-like operating systems. By default it uses 4 layouts.Lets...
Pekwm, also known as the Pek Window Manager, is an open source, unobtrusive and completely free window manager based on the aewm++ project, which is also a window manager software. Pekwm is designed to be used on Linux kernel-based operating...
