Best 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...
XD640 (X11 Desktop 640x480) project is a lightweight desktop environment and office suite.XD640 is a simple graphical desktop environment for X-Window. The goal is to create a set of light weight and fast applications running on a slow computer (i486...
Window Maker is an open source X11 window manager, originally designed to provide integration support for the GNUstep desktop environment.
Window Maker includes compatibility options for popular desktop environments, such as GNOME and KDE, and it also...
ZappWM is an open source, lightweight and easy to use desktop environment for Linux operating systems, based on the ROX and Fluxbox window managers.ZappWM features complete drag & drop functionality, including the ability to drag shortcuts to the desktop,...
LXDE is a lightweight X11 desktop environment. This project aimed to provide a new desktop environment which is useful enough and keep resource usage lower at the same time. Useabiliy, speed, and memory usage are our main concern.Here are some key...
wmjump is a tool that allows you to do keyboard-based window navigation of the Linux desktop. Use the keyboard to switch between windows and workspaces. "Mouseless navigation". Shows a menu with the colored list of windows, marked by letters a-z....
FVWM project is an extremely powerful ICCCM-compliant multiple virtual desktop window manager for the X Window system. Development is active, and support is excellent. Check it out!Features:cursor-pointer" onclick="spovl3hide();"> Application features...
SlackE17 is an open source project designed for building and distributing the new Enlightenment DR17 (E17) window manager for the Slackware Linux distribution.Enlightenment DR17 is under heavy development but is stable enough for everyday use even if...
SimpleKDE is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX and UNIX based operating systems like Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenSolaris. Shortly it provides a graphical user interface on top of UNIX shells.SimpleKDE is not written from scratch; in fact, it is a...
XPde is a complete desktop environment for Linux on x86. It tries to make easier for Windows XP users to use a Linux box.Nothing more, no clipboard compatibility between Gtk and Qt applications, no emulation of Windows applications, no unification on the...
