wmderland is an X11 tiling window manager using space partitioning trees with no bloated features and a tiny disk footprint.
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Category: Desktop
Ratpoison – simple window manager
ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no fat library dependencies. It is largely modelled after GNU Screen.
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EXWM – full-featured tiling X window manager for Emacs
EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager) is a full-featured tiling X window manager for Emacs built on top of XELB.
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herbstluftwm – manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib
herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib. herbstluftwm is written from scratch.
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bspwm – tiling window manager that represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree
bspwm is a tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning. It represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree.
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StumpWM – tiling, keyboard driven X11 window manager
StumpWM is a tiling, window manager written entirely in Common Lisp. It attempts to be highly customizable while relying entirely on the keyboard for input.
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i3 – improved tiling window manager
i3 is a tiling window manager, completely written from scratch. i3 is primarily targeted at advanced users and developers.
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sway – tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager
Sway is an i3-compatible tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11.
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Avant Window Navigator – dock-like bar
Avant Window Navigator (Awn) is a free and open source Mac OS X like panel for the GNOME Desktop written in C.
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Simdock – small dock with pseudo-transparency and good window handling
Simdock is a dockbar that features a zoom effect (like the OS X dock) and customized launchers. Free and open source software.
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Cairo-Dock – desktop interface
Cairo-Dock is an attractive, lightweight eye-candy dock. It has a family-likeness with the OS X dock, but with more options.
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Docky – full fledged dock application
Docky is a fully fledged dock application that makes opening common applications and managing windows easier and quicker.
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Plank – simple, fast and beautiful dock
Plank is meant to be the simplest dock on the planet. The goal is to provide just what a dock needs and absolutely nothing more.
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FVWM – ICCCM-compliant multiple virtual desktop window manager
FVWM is a powerful ICCCM2 compliant multiple virtual desktop window manager for the X Window System. It was originally derived from twm.
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Compiz – OpenGL compositing manager
Compiz is a compositing window manager that uses 3D graphics acceleration via OpenGL. It provides various new graphical effects and features.
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