New Window Managers for Linux
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,...
Techisa Desktop Environment is a lightweight alternative desktop environment developed using Qt.The project's goal is to provide users with a comfortable environment using as few resources as possible. Only a Brazillian Portuguese translation is currently...
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...
wbar is a quick launch bar recommended for fluxbox or Window Maker. wbars goal is speed.This is eye candy developed in C++. The motivation is eye-candy which runs as fast as possible but still it probably made faster.Tested succesfully on Fluxbox,...
GEX is just another desktop environment. Definitely nothing special. But it has one feature that no other desktop environment could provide: GEX is mine and get's all the features that I need and nothing else.Another reason for this little 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...
samurai-x2 is a work in progress window manager written in pure Python.There are two samurai-x: samurai-x1, based on Xlib, and samurai-x2, based on an Xcb binding. However, work on samurai-x1 has been halted.samurai-x is written entirely in python using...
echinus is a lightweight window manager for X based on dwm's source code. It manages windows in tiled, maximized, and floating layouts. It is extremely small, rather fast, and supports Xft.The echinus project features nice titlebars, multiple desktops,...
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....
