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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Category: Desktop
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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Blackbox – window manager
Blackbox is a window manager for the X Window System. Its design is meant to be visually minimalist and fast.
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WindowMaker – window manager
Window Maker is a window manager originally designed to provide integration support for the GNUstep Desktop Environment.
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Sawfish – extensible window manager
Sawfish (formerly known as Sawmill) is an extensible window manager using an Emacs Lisp-like scripting language called Librep.
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Pekwm – window manager
The Pek Window Manager is a small, flexible window manager which was originally based on the aewm++ window manager.
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Openbox – window manager with extensive standards support
Openbox is a window manager for the X11 windowing system. It was originally based on Blackbox and currently remains very similar.
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IceWM – stacking window manager
IceWM is a stacking window manager for the X Window System. It is fast and memory-efficient, and it provides many different looks.
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Fluxbox – window manager for X
Fluxbox is a window manager that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. It is very light on resources and easy to handle.
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Enlightenment – window manager and desktop environment
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
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
Stacking window managers (also known as floating window managers) draw all windows in a specific order, allowing them to overlap.
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