stacking window manager Archives

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.

Compiz is a compositing window manager that uses 3D graphics acceleration via OpenGL. It provides various new graphical effects and features.

Blackbox is a window manager for the X Window System. Its design is meant to be visually minimalist and fast.

Window Maker is a window manager originally designed to provide integration support for the GNUstep Desktop Environment.

Sawfish (formerly known as Sawmill) is an extensible window manager using an Emacs Lisp-like scripting language called Librep.

The Pek Window Manager is a small, flexible window manager which was originally based on the aewm++ window manager.

Openbox is a window manager for the X11 windowing system. It was originally based on Blackbox and currently remains very similar.

IceWM is a stacking window manager for the X Window System. It is fast and memory-efficient, and it provides many different looks.

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.

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

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

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.