Simple EWMH compatible window manager with titlebars and frames. MATE's window manager, forked from Metacity, the window manager of GNOME 2. Tiling window manager for X11, based on 9wm. Minimalist tiling window manager, completely written from scratch.įree and open-source, lightweight, stacking window manager for X11. Manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib.Įxtremely lightweight window manager for the X window system. Open-source stacking window manager for X11 that was originally forked from Blackbox. Lightweight tiling and floating window manager forked from dwm.Įye-candy, compositing and stacking window manager that is released under the permissive BSD License. Lightweight, stacking window manager originally developed for OpenBSD. Lightweight, tiling, minimalist window manager that is written in C and represents its windows as leaves on a binary tree.

Open-source stacking window manager written in C++ and licensed under the MIT License. Highly configurable, next generation, dynamic window manager for X. Stacking window manager that resembles the Amiga Workbench user interface. Minimalistic, dynamic X11 window manager.ĭynamic window manager with more modern features than aewm but with the same look and feel. See x11-wm on, or use eix ( app-portage/eix). This is a partial selection of window managers available in Gentoo. Windows managers can integrate a compositor, for buffering graphics before showing them, allowing visual effects, anti-flicker and other facilities.

Dynamic window managers can dynamically switch between the other two paradigms.

Tiling window managers represent windows as tiles, or split views, with windows displayed next to one another, but with none of the windows overlapping.

Stacking (or floating) window managers have windows analogous to pieces of paper on a physical desktop, which can be stacked each on top of the others, with the one with which the user interacts on top of the stack, and totally visible.

Windows managers can generally be dynamic, stacking, or tiling in their behavior.

Tiling wm