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Stacking Window Managers

Enlightenment – window manager and desktop environment

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

The Enlightenment (“E) window manager is a robust, flexible, highly configurable, graphically rich yet unobtrusive desktop environment for X.

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evilwm – minimalist window manager

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

evilwm is a minimalist window manager for the X Window System. It works by drawing a one pixel border around each window.

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22 Best Free and Open Source Stacking Window Managers

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

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

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Marco – MATE default window manager

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

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

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Worm – tiny, dynamic, tag-based window manager

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

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

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2bwm – fast floating (stacking) window manager

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

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

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cwm – Calm Window Manager – stacking window manager

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

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

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Gala – window and compositing manager based on libmutter

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

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

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berry – bite-sized window manager

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

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.

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JWM – lightweight window manager

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

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

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