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22 Best Free and Open Source Stacking Window Managers

Stacking window managers (also known as floating window managers) draw all windows in a specific order, allowing them to overlap.

Marco is a fork of GNOME Metacity. Marco is the default window manager for MATE, the continuation of GNOME 2.

Worm is a tiny, dynamic, tag-based window manager. It supports both a floating mode and master-stack tiling with gaps and struts.

2bwm is a fast, floating, free and open source window manager, with the particularity of having two borders, written over the XCB library.

cwm (Calm Window Manager) is an OpenBSD fork of calmwn, a clean and lightweight stacking window manager. cwm is free and open source software.

Gala is a window and compositing manager based on libmutter. The program is designed by elementary for use with Pantheon.

berry is a healthy, bite-sized window manager written in C over the XLib library and the Xft headers. berry is free and open source software.

JWM (Joe’s Window Manager) a lightweight window manager for the X11 Window System. JWM is free and open source software.

The Xfce 4 Window Manager (xfwm4) is part of the Xfce Desktop Environment. xfwm4 can be run standalone.

sowm (Simple Opinionated Window Manager) provides fullscreen toggling, window centering and a mixed workflow (i.e. mouse and keyboard).