Best Window Managers for Linux

Fresco project is a distributed windowing system.It's a windowing system derived from a powerful structured graphics toolkit originally based on InterViews. Fresco extends earlier incarnations to the status of a full windowing system, in command of the...

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,...

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...

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...

Blackbox is an open source and freely distributed software project that has been designed from the ground up to act as a standalone or integrated window manager in the style of the more popular Openbox and Fluxbox projects. It is a lightweight and low on...

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...

As its name implies, alloywm is a quite exquisite, aesthetic little window manager for X11. The premise of this window manager is not to be over-bloated like better known window managers such as KDE, and to keep the interface out of a user's way. Also,...

Ratpoison is an open source software project crafted as a very simple, minimalistic, fast and lightweight window manager for Linux and UNIX-like operating systems. It is designed to run on top of the X11 Windows System, as an alternative to minimalist...

Oroborus Theme Changer is an app for changing the theme in the Oroborus window manager.Oroborus Theme Changer is an app for changing the theme in the Oroborus window manager. To use the app just #cp otc /usr/binIt presumes your theme directory is located...

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...