Free Window Managers for Linux
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...
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...
Openbox project is a standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible window manager.Openbox works with your applications, and makes your desktop easier to manage. This is because the approach to its development was the opposite of what seems to be the...
i3 is a tiling window manager. It is completely written from scratch.i3 was created because wmii, our favorite window manager at the time, didn’t provide some features we wanted (Xinerama done right, for example), had some bugs, didn’t...
Razor-qt is an advanced, fast and easy-to-use desktop environment based on Qt technologies. It has been tailored for users who value simplicity, speed, and an intuitive interface. Unlike most desktop environments, Razor-qt also works fine with weak...
Metacity is a lightweight and open source window manager initially written by Havoc Pennington from Red Hat.Metacity is implemented with the GTK+ toolkit, and so integrates well with the GNOME desktop environment.What is new in this release:Fix...
Sawfish (previously known as Sawmill) is an open source, minimal and extensible window manager for Linux and UNIX-like operating systems, using a Lisp-based scripting language.Sawfish’s aim is to allow users to easily manage windows in the most...
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,...
spectrwm is an open source and minimalistic window manager for X11 that features dynamic tiling, dynamic xrandr and multi-screen support.spectrwm also provides navigation anywhere on all screens with either the mouse or keyboard, customizable status bar,...
IceWM is an open source software project that aims to deliver a basic, easy-to-use and unencumbered window manager for the X Window System, running on a wide range of GNU/Linux operating systems and trying to imitate the look and feel of Windows...
