Must have 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...

gnome-session is an open source and free software project, an important component of the GNOME desktop environment, providing essential components for its sessions. It comprises of the GNOME session manager, a configuration program that allows users to...

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...

Golem is a lightweight, fast window manager for X11 which is very customizable.Golem's development has stagnated for a while and Jordan has given the project to Bruce Ashfield. Bruce is currently working on a new release which will have some existing...

Hackedbox provides a stripped down version of Blackbox - The X11 Window ManagerThe toolbar and Slit have been removed. The goal of Hackedbox is to be a small "feature-set" window manager, with no bloat.There are no plans to add any functionality, only...

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...

IceMe is a graphical menu editor for IceWM written in Python and GTK.Here are some key features of "IceMe":· Tree editing with Drag'n'Drop and Cut'n'Paste· Shortcut editor· Icon selection dialog· Tries to mimic IceWM's idea of getting...

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...

Ion is a tiling (no overlapping windows) window manager which also has PWM-style tabbed frames which can contain multiple client windows.These features help to keep windows organized and to switch quickly between them. Ion was designed primarily as an...

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...