Free Window Managers for Linux
The X.Org Foundation provides an open source implementation of the X Window System. The development work is being done as part of the freedesktop.org community.What is new in this release:Multi-touch events are now supported for touchpads and touchscreens...
Scrotwm is a small, but dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff. It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to...
Subtle application is a another tiling window manager with a slightly different approach to place the windows, in contrast to other tiling window managers like Wmii or Ion. The placement in subtle is done by tiling windows which arrange every child-window...
dwm-arp is a window manager based on dwm.Developer commentsdwm is my favorite window manager, and I wanted to make my own dwm (as all dwm user I think). As I like DebianLive project too, I had to make a deb from my own dwm config. That's why you're...
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....
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
