LeftWM is designed to do one thing and to do that one thing well: be a window manager.
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7 Best Free and Open Source Compositing Window Managers
A compositing window manager, or compositor, is a window manager that provides applications with an off-screen buffer for each window.
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wmii – dynamic window manager
wmii is a dynamic window manager. Highy customizable and usable with keyboard and mouse. It supports conventional, tabbed and tiled window management.
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spectrwm – small dynamic tiling and reparenting window manager for X11
spectrwm is a small, dynamic tiling window manager for Xorg. It tries to stay out of the way
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Qtile – full-featured, hackable tiling window manager
Qtile is a full-featured, hackable tiling window manager.
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Awesome – window manager
Awesome is a highly configurable, tiling window manager initially based on dwm code. It is extremely fast, small, dynamic and ‘awesome’.
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dwm – dynamic window manager
dwm is a minimalistic window manager. It manages windows in tiling and floating modes. Either mode can be applied dynamically.
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Xmonad – dynamically tiling X11 window manager
Xmonad is a minimalist, tiling window manager for X, written in the functional programming language Haskell.
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Weston – lightweight and functional Wayland compositor
Weston provides a very basic desktop, or a full-featured environment for non-desktop uses such as automotive, embedded, in-flight, and more.
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labwc – Lab Wayland Compositor
Labwc is a wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for wayland, inspired by openbox.
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hikari – stacking Wayland compositor
hikari is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.
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Wayfire – Wayland compositor based on wlroots
Wayfire is a 3D Wayland compositor, inspired by Compiz and based on wlroots. This is free and open source software.
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Notion – tiling, tabbed window manager
Notion is a tiling, tabbed window manager for the X window system. The program is traditionally written to be very usable by mainly using the keyboard.
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wmderland – X11 tiling window manager
wmderland is an X11 tiling window manager using space partitioning trees with no bloated features and a tiny disk footprint.
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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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