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Up to WM Report
The Comprehensive List of Window Managers for Unix
This is a list of every freely available Window Manager I'm aware of
(roughly 180 in 2011, about 185 in 2021). New testing/alpha/beta
versions won't be listed when a stable version is available. You can
sort the table on a particular field by clicking on the header row
(should work in any browser).
I'm adding non-English WMs, with the caveat that English is the only
language I speak. Non-English projects may not have version number
listings.
Recent adds (that doesn't mean they're new WMs): newm (2022-04-20),
cagebreak (2022-04-20), wmonad (2022-04-03), dwl (2022-04-02),
wayfire (2022-04-02), River (2022-04-01), sdorfehs (2022-03-31), e16
(2022-03-31), xwm (2022-03-31), progman (2022-03-31), NsCDE
(2022-03-31), Worm (2022-02-27).
Most recent updates: 2022-06-10 08:54
+------------------------------------------+
|URLs|Version|Release| Date |Authors|Notes|
| | | Date |Checked| | |
|----+-------+-------+-------+-------+-----|
|[*] |[*] |[*] |[ ] |[ ] |[*] |
+------------------------------------------+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Name | URLs | Version |Release | Date | Authors | Notes |
| | | | date |checked | | |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |"A fast floating WM |
|2bwm |[homepage] |git |20210820|20220607|Patrick "Venam" |written over the XCB |
| | | | | |Louis |library and derived from|
| | | | | | |mcwm." |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |"Stereo WM." Stripped/ |
| | | | | | |simplified version of |
| | | | | | |dwm, same author. |
| | | | | | |Reasonably thorough |
| | | | | | |documentation. The |
| | | | | | |"homepage" given is the |
|2wm |[homepage] |not available | | |Anselm Garbe |suckless.org git |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |repository. 2wm has |
| | | | | | |periodically disappeared|
| | | | | | |in the past. Gone |
| | | | | | |2018-01. |
| | | | | | | |
| | | | | | |Original homepage. Local|
| | | | | | |archived (2007) copy. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |One of the earliest |
| | | | | | |attempts at 3D |
|3Dwm |[homepage] |not available | | |Niklas Elmqvist, |appearance in a WM. Site|
| |[Wikipedia]| | | |Robert Karlsson. |died mid-2010, there had|
| | | | | | |been no development for |
| | | | | | |quite a while. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
|5Dwm | | | | |Eric Masson |See MaXX Interactive |
| | | | | | |Desktop. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Imitates the 8-1/2 WM |
| | | | | | |(Plan 9 OS). See also |
| | | | | |originally David |w9wm (which adds virtual|
|9wm |[homepage] |1.4.2 |20220120|20220429|Hogan, now Neale |desktops) and rio, which|
| |[Wikipedia]| | | |Pickett and others |claims to be a more |
| | | | | | |exact imitation. Often |
| | | | | | |used as a code base for |
| | | | | | |other WMs. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |"Advanced Dynamic Window|
| | | | | | |Manager." "This was |
| | | | | | |originally a fork of |
| |[homepage] | | | | |Echinus which in turn |
|adwm |[Wikipedia]|0.7.16 |20220128|20220525|Brian Bidulock |was a fork of dwm, and |
| | | | | | |borrows concepts from |
| | | | | | |velox, awesome, spectrwm|
| | | | | | |and wmii." ie. it's a |
| | | | | | |tiling WM. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Child of Kahakai, based |
| | | | | | |on aewm++. Code only |
|Aegis |[homepage] |not available | | |Michael Brailsford |available through SVN. |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |Vanished summer 2014, |
| | | | | | |former URL http:// |
| | | | | | |aegiswm.berlios.de/. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |A very popular code base|
| | | | | | |for many other WMs. 2003|
| |[homepage] | | | | |Review. Removed from |
|aewm |[Wikipedia]|not available | | |Decklin Foster |red-bean.com ~2019-11. |
| | | | | | |Still available |
| | | | | | |pre-compiled in some |
| | | | | | |distros in 2020. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Sapphire and aewm++ are |
| | | | | | |different aspects of a |
| | | | | | |project by Frank Hale. |
| |[homepage] | | | | |aewm++ is a rewrite of |
|aewm++ |[Wikipedia]|not available | | |Frank Hale |aewm (which is in C) in |
| | | | | | |C++. 20100706 onward: |
| | | | | | |source access at google |
| | | | | | |currently broken. 2003 |
| | | | | | |Review |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| |[homepage] | | | | |"Originally based on the|
|AfterStep |[Wikipedia]|2.2.12 |20130610|20220528|Sasha Vasko |look and feel of the |
| | | | | | |NeXTStep interface." |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |"Alex Hioreanu's Window |
| | | | | | |Manager." Free but |
| | | | | | |non-GPL license. |
| | | | | | |Astonishing for its |
| |[homepage] | | | | |comprehensive |
|AHWM |[Wikipedia]|git |20100901|20220602|Alex Hioreanu |documentation. His |
| | | | | | |primary motivation for |
| | | | | | |writing this |
| | | | | | |now-abandoned WM was to |
| | | | | | |fix the problems he saw |
| | | | | | |with sloppy focus. Notes|
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Ajax-based WM that runs |
| |[homepage] | | | |server: Dennis |entirely in a browser. |
|ajaxWM |[Wikipedia]|0.2.6 |20080228|20220604|Felsing, client: |Currently in alpha state|
| | | | | |Andreas Waidler. |and runs only in |
| | | | | | |Firefox. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Tiling, cites tinywm, |
| |[homepage] | | | |Jesse "TrilbyWhite"|dwm, i3 and monster as |
|Alopex |[Wikipedia]|git |20190812|20220501|McClure |inspiration. ArchWiki |
| | | | | | |documentation. GPL3 |
| | | | | | |license. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Last known address http:|
| |[homepage] | | | | |//www.phatboydesigns.net|
|AlloyWM |[Wikipedia]|not available | | | |/alloywm/ is now |
| | | | | | |advertising space. Was a|
| | | | | | |modification of aewm. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |"This is my custom, |
| | | | | | |window manager. It's |
| | | | | | |small, functional and |
| | | | | | |fast. It is based on dwm|
|alpt-wm |[homepage] |not available | | |Andrea "AlpT" Lo |..." 2012-12: now |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | |Pumo |subject to a bad domain |
| | | | | | |redirect. 2013-03: |
| | | | | | |author still has web |
| | | | | | |presence, no mention of |
| | | | | | |WM. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |GTK-based. Screen shots |
| | | | | | |all show GNOME toolbar. |
| | | | | | |Source (last known |
|amaterus |[homepage] |not available | | |Hiroyuki Komatsu |version 0.34.1 dated |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |20021124) is MIA. |
| | | | | | |Website is |
| | | | | | |disintegrating over |
| | | | | | |time. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Imitates the Amiga |
| | | | | | |Workbench. Has its own |
| |[homepage] | | | | |"Generic amiwm License."|
|AmiWM |[Wikipedia]|0.21pl2 |20100720|20220501|Marcus Comstedt |New version 201007 ... |
| | | | | | |12 years after the last |
| | | | | | |release. This site may |
| | | | | | |be of interest to fans. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |"CLOS oriented Scheme |
| | | | | | |code. The implementation|
| | | | | | |language is Gauche |
| | | | | | |Scheme." It requires |
| | | | | | |Gauche and gauche-x |
|Anarchy |[homepage] |not available | | |Eduardo Cavazos |(probably by the same |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |author). Homepage |
| | | | | | |vanished between |
| | | | | | |20081229 and 20090212 |
| | | | | | |(http:// |
| | | | | | |proteus.freeshell.org/ |
| | | | | | |anarchy/). |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | |orig. Tuomo |Fork of the dead Ion3. |
|anion3 |[homepage] |not available | | |Valkonen. Now |Tiling. Now "deprecated"|
| |[Wikipedia]| | | |Sergej Pupykin. |(~201107) in favour of |
| | | | | | |notion. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | |previously listed |Qt4 window manager, |
| | | | | |as "Peppino", repo |trying to avoid other |
|Antico |[homepage] |git |20090525|20220503|owner Giuseppe |dependencies. |
| | | | | |"antico" Cigala |Development appears to |
| | | | | |(2019-07-20) |have ceased in 2009. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |aka "GUIShell." Based on|
| | | | | | |GTK+ 2.x. Meant to be |
| | | | | | |low resource. It would |
| | | | | | |appear that the actual |
| | | | | | |window manager is the |
|AntiRight |[homepage] |3.10 |20100903|20220507|Jeffrey E. Bedard |"gtkshell," but its |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |functionality is so |
| | | | | | |heavily tied in with |
| | | | | | |"ACE" (also a part of |
| | | | | | |the package) that a |
| | | | | | |separate listing doesn't|
| | | | | | |make sense. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Written in C, "inspired |
| | | | | | |by" Ratpoison (and |
| |[homepage] | | | | |inheriting the screen/ |
|AntiWM |[Wikipedia]|0.0.5 |20090531|20220505|Nolan Liebert |emacs keys), all windows|
| | | | | | |full screen, MIT |
| | | | | | |license. Same author as |
| | | | | | |TAL/wm and dwemo. Notes |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Athene is actually an |
| | | | | | |operating system, but |
| | | | | | |there is a package |
| | | | | | |available that runs on |
|Athene | | | | | |top of a Linux kernel. |
|Desktop |[homepage] |not available | | |Rocklyte Systems |It's a GUI that doesn't |
|Edition |[Wikipedia]| | | | |use X11/XOrg. The |
| | | | | | |license is almost |
| | | | | | |certainly not GPL, |
| | | | | | |although this package is|
| | | | | | |"freely available." Site|
| | | | | | |dead 201011. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |"awesome is a highly |
| | | | | | |configurable, next |
| | | | | | |generation framework |
| | | | | | |window manager for X. It|
| |[homepage] | | | |Julien Danjou, |is very fast, extensible|
|awesome |[Wikipedia]|4.3 |20190128|20220607|Nikos Ntarmos, Aldo|and licensed under the |
| | | | | |Cortesi. |GNU GPLv2 license." |
| | | | | | |Tiling, originally based|
| | | | | | |on dwm, includes |
| | | | | | |Xinerama support, very |
| | | | | | |active. Notes |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |"The Ardent Window |
| | | | | | |Manager was for a while |
| | | | | | |a hotbed for hackers and|
| | | | | | |offered some features |
| | | | | | |(dynamic menus) not |
| |[homepage] | | | | |found on more current |
|awm |X |not available | | |Jordan Hubbard |window managers." Based |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |on uwm. "Homepage" link |
| | | | | | |is to an archive at |
| | | | | | |xwinman.org (broken |
| | | | | | |since ~2017-06, but they|
| | | | | | |still link to it |
| | | | | | |themselves). |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Free to use, but not |
| | | | | | |GPL. He supplies only |
| | | | | | |binaries that are now |
| | | | | | |more than fifteen years |
| |[homepage] | | | | |old. Mash-up of Mac OS 8|
|B4Step |[Wikipedia]|2.2 |20010627|20220511|Eric Boucher |/9, GNOME, and OPENSTEP?|
| | | | | | |Shaped windows. Version |
| | | | | | |number and date is for |
| | | | | | |Intel/RH 7.1 binary. |
| | | | | | |Website straight outta |
| | | | | | |2001. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| |[homepage] | | | | |Website: "Not actively |
|BadWM |[Wikipedia]|0.1.1 |20040915|20220608|Robert Annessi |maintained." Minimalist,|
| | | | | | |no decorations. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |"bite-sized window |
| | | | | | |manager" written in C. |
| | | | | | |"Controlled via a |
| | | | | | |powerful command-line |
|Berry |[homepage] |0.1.11 |20220317|20220505|Joshua Ervin |client, allowing users |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |to control windows via a|
| | | | | | |hotkey daemon such as |
| | | | | | |sxhkd or expand |
| | | | | | |functionality via shell |
| | | | | | |scripts." |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Fork of the |
| | | | | |Quinn_Storm, Dennis|graphics-heavy Compiz. |
| | | | | |Kasprzyk, Nicholas |Compiz and Beryl have |
|Beryl |[homepage] |not available | | |Thomas, Robert |re-merged (started |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | |Carr, Nigel |~200705) to create |
| | | | | |Cunningham, |Compiz Fusion. Now |
| | | | | |Kristian Lyngstol |merged back to the |
| | | | | | |Compiz project. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |One of the mainstays of |
| | | | | | |the alternative WM |
| | | | | | |world. Fluxbox, Openbox |
| | | | | |Brad Hughes, then |and many others are |
|Blackbox |[homepage] |0.77 |20210512|20220501|Jeff Raven, now |based on this. Old page |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | |Sean Shaleh Perry. |died 2018-03: Arch Linux|
| | | | | | |maintenance branch |
| | | | | | |(linked above) is now |
| | | | | | |the main release. 2003 |
| | | | | | |Review |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Based on XMonad, tiling/|
| | | | | | |stacking WM intended for|
| | | | | | |GNOME. Nice intro |
| |[homepage] | | | | |screencast, looks |
|Bluetile |[Wikipedia]|0.6 |20111126|20220608|Jan Vornberger |surprisingly easy to use|
| | | | | | |- but has XMonad's |
| | | | | | |Haskell requirement, and|
| | | | | | |needs cabal to install. |
| | | | | | |BSD3 license. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Part of the "Lobotomy" |
| | | | | | |project. The window |
|BrainTop |[homepage] |not available | | |Roberto "MadBob" |manager "BrainTop" is a |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | |Guido |derivative of, and very |
| | | | | | |similar to, XFCE's WM. |
| | | | | | |Site dead 201308. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |"Tiling window manager |
| | | |20200802| |Bastien |based on binary space |
|bspwm |[homepage] |0.9.10/git |/ |20220505|"baskerville" |partitioning." I haven't|
| |[Wikipedia]| |20220215| |Dejean |had time to figure out |
| | | | | | |what that means ... But |
| | | | | | |it came recommended. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Originally an |
| | | | | | |enhancement for GNU |
| | | | | | |Screen, Byobu is now a |
| | | | | |Dustin Kirkland, |text-based window |
| |[homepage] | | | |Nick Barcet, |manager and terminal |
|Byobu |[Wikipedia]|5.133 |20200217|20220425|Raphael Pinson, |multiplexer that also |
| | | | | |Derek Carter |works with tmux. Written|
| | | | | | |in Python for Ubuntu, |
| | | | | | |now works with most |
| | | | | | |Linux distros, plus BSD |
| | | | | | |and Mac. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | |"project-repo" on |"A Wayland Tiling |
|cagebreak |[homepage] |1.9.0 |20220421|20220604|GitHub |Compositor Inspired by |
| | | | | | |Ratpoison." MIT license.|
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Tiling WM for Arch |
| |[homepage] | | | | |Linux, written in C, |
|catwm |[Wikipedia]|git |20111231|20220427|"pyknite" |related to dwm. |
| | | | | | |Discussion at this Arch |
| | | | | | |Linux Forum. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |A UI, not a WM, a GNOME |
| | | | | | |Shell variant meant to |
|Cinnamon |[homepage] |5.2.7 |20211231|20220425| |emulate GNOME 2 for |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |those who don't like |
| | | | | | |GNOME 3. Uses the Muffin|
| | | | | | |WM. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Based on aewm, written |
| | | | | | |in C++. "Clementine is |
| | | | | | |only somewhat functional|
|Clementine |[homepage] |0.0.7 beta |20020325|20220517|Dave Berton |at the moment. Unless |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |you plan to hack on the |
| | | | | | |source, it is not |
| | | | | | |recommended that you do |
| | | | | | |much with it." |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |"Based on TinyWM and |
| | | | | | |Stumpwm." Written |
| | | | | | |entirely in Common Lisp,|
|clfswm |[homepage] |1212 |20121207|20220517|Philippe Brochard |requires a lisp |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |interpreter, or you can |
| | | | | | |download the |
| | | | | | |self-contained binary |
| | | | | | |pack. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |CDE was released in |
| | | | | | |1993. It had a long |
| | | | | | |history, and was often |
|Common | | | | | |imitated. In 2012, it |
|Desktop |[homepage] |2.4.0 |20210703|20220429| |and the supporting Motif|
|Environment |[Wikipedia]| | | | |toolkit were |
| | | | | | |open-sourced. As of 2018|
| | | | | | |it's still |
| | | | | | |build-it-yourself, no |
| | | | | | |packages. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Attractive and |
| | | | | | |graphics-intensive. |
| | | | | | |Beryl forked from |
|Compiz |[homepage] |0.9.14.1 |20191126|20220525| |Compiz, they re-merged |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |2007 to form Compiz |
| | | | | | |Fusion, became just |
| | | | | | |"Compiz" again early |
| | | | | | |2011. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |"Compiz Fusion is the |
| | | | | | |result of a merge |
| | | | | | |between the well-known |
| | | | | | |Beryl composite window |
|Compiz Fusion|[homepage] |not available | | | |manager and Compiz |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |Extras, a community set |
| | | | | | |of improvements to the |
| | | | | | |Compiz composite window |
| | | | | | |manager." Now merged |
| | | | | | |back to Compiz. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Adds virtual desktops |
| | | | | |Previously Claude |and even more |
|CTWM |[homepage] |4.0.3 |20190721|20220527|Lecommandeur, now |configurability to TWM. |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | |Richard Levitte. |One of my main WMs for |
| | | | | | |years, but very hard to |
| | | | | | |build now. 2003 Review |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Originally based on |
| | | | | | |evilwm, now written from|
| | | | | | |scratch. Disappeared in |
| | | | | |Marius Aamodt |2015, rediscovered (new |
|cwm |[homepage] |7.1 |20220430|20220501|Eriksen, taken over|maintainer) late 2019. |
| | | | | |by Lea Neukirchen |OpenBSD had a copy - |
| | | | | | |older than the |
| | | | | | |"homepage" link, but the|
| | | | | | |first linked one is |
| | | | | | |portable. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Based on catwm, itself |
| | | | | | |based on dwm. Minimalist|
| | | | | | |tiling WM. Spawned |
|dminiwm |[homepage] |git |20141224|20220505|"moetunes" |monsterwm. The author |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |has several variants by |
| | | | | | |different names with |
| | | | | | |slightly different |
| | | | | | |functionality. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Based on StumpWM |
| | | | | | |(written in Lisp). |
|Deep Space | | | | | |"Better usability, |
|Window |[homepage] |git |20161117|20220505|Alexander |better integration with |
|Manager |[Wikipedia]| | | |"cosmonaut" Vynnyk |Emacs." Project frozen |
| | | | | | |(2016-11) with the |
| | | | | | |intent of merging back |
| | | | | | |to StumpWM. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Dynamic Virtual Terminal|
| | | | | | |Manager: "dvtm brings |
| | | | | | |dwm and its concept of |
| |[homepage] | | | | |tiling window management|
|dvtm |[Wikipedia]|0.15 |20160109|20220527|Marc Andre Tanner |to the console." |
| | | | | | |Borrowed some code from |
| | | | | | |dwm. Text only. MIT/X |
| | | | | | |Consortium License. |
| | | | | | |Notes |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Trying to be very small.|
| | | | | | |MIT License. Same author|
| | | | | | |as TAL/wm and AntiWM. |
| | | | | | |Author Liebert says it's|
| | | | | | |currently "relatively |
| |[homepage] | | | | |unstable" (20080803 - my|
|dwemo |[Wikipedia]|not available | | |Nolan Liebert |experience included |
| | | | | | |crashing as soon as you |
| | | | | | |ran a terminal) but that|
| | | | | | |he plans to stabilize it|
| | | | | | |enough for production |
| | | | | | |use. Files disappeared |
| | | | | | |~200909. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |"dwl is a compact, |
| | | | | | |hackable compositor for |
| | | | | | |Wayland based on wlroots|
|dwl |[homepage] |0.3.1 |20220410|20220520|Devin J. Pohly |[part of sway]. It is |
| | | | | | |intended to fill the |
| | | | | | |same space in the |
| | | | | | |Wayland world that dwm |
| | | | | | |does in X11 ... |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |"Dynamic Window |
| | | | | | |Manager," another |
| | | | | | |keyboard-driven WM from |
| | | | | | |the wmii people. |
| | | | | | |"Because dwm is |
| | | | | | |customized through |
| | | | | | |editing its source code,|
| | | | | | |it's pointless to make |
|dwm |[homepage] |6.3 |20220107|20220502|Anselm Garbe |binary packages of it. |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |This keeps its userbase |
| | | | | | |small and elitist. No |
| | | | | | |novices asking stupid |
| | | | | | |questions." Version 5.2 |
| | | | | | |source package 18kb. 4.8|
| | | | | | |on is supposed to |
| | | | | | |include Xinerama |
| | | | | | |support, I haven't |
| | | | | | |checked. MIT license. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| |[homepage] | | | |Mihir "mihirlad55" |"A DWM patch that allows|
|dwm-ipc |[Wikipedia]|1.5.7 |20201106|20220503|Lad |IPC communication |
| | | | | | |through a UNIX socket." |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |"E16 is predecessor of |
| | | | | | |the current ... |
| | | | | | |Enlightenment ..." I |
| | | | | | |don't usually like to |
|E16 |[homepage] |1.0.24 |20211114|20220517|The Enlightenment |keep separate entries on|
| | | | | |team |particular revs, but |
| | | | | | |Enlightenment E16 has |
| | | | | | |been particularly |
| | | | | | |popular and well (and |
| | | | | | |separately) maintained. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Based on the same |
| | | | | | |author's fwm, which was |
| | | | | | |based on dwm's code base|
| |[homepage] | | | | |and took some ideas from|
|echinus wm |[Wikipedia]|0.4.9 |20110920|20220429|Alexander Polakov |Plan 9's rio. It's "in |
| | | | | | |the spirit of dwm." The |
| | | | | | |git repo (but not the |
| | | | | | |web page) says it's not |
| | | | | | |maintained anymore. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |A WM, not the well known|
| | | | | | |IDE. Written in Common |
| | | | | | |Lisp, student |
| |[homepage] | | | |Nikos Drakos, Ross |programming project. |
|Eclipse |[Wikipedia]|not available | | |Moore, Erik Enge |Pointer to CVS snapshot |
| | | | | |... |tarball is broken, CVS |
| | | | | | |itself was available, |
| | | | | | |now gone. Abandoned, |
| | | | | | |succumbing to link rot. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | |v1: Martin Pekar, | |
| | | | | |Mikko Lahtenaaki, |Equinox Desktop |
|EDE |[homepage] |2.1 |20140621|20220527|Dejan Lekic, Alexey|Environment. "Familiar |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | |Parshin. v2: Sanel |look and feel" which |
| | | | | |Zukan, Vedran |means "Windows." |
| | | | | |Ljubovic. | |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
|Efsane II |[homepage] |not available | | |Serdar Ozler. |Turkish. Written in C++.|
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |Site died 200908. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |alt home. Written in |
| | | | | | |C++, Qt4 libraries, |
| | | | | | |GPLv3. freedesktop.org /|
| | | | | | |EWMH / ICCCM compliant. |
| |[homepage] | | | | |Meant to be lightweight,|
|eggwm |[Wikipedia]|0.2 |20110212|20220505|Jose Expesito |standards-compliant, and|
| | | | | | |eventually add gesture |
| | | | | | |control. code.google.com|
| | | | | | |is archived, live fork |
| | | | | | |at https://github.com/ |
| | | | | | |xiangzhai/eggwm. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Part of "Project |
| | | | | | |Elevate" to simplify our|
| |[homepage] | | | | |complex UIs. Has a very |
|Elevate |[Wikipedia]|0.2.0 |20071118|20220502|Kostis Kapelonis |long list or |
| | | | | | |requirements, was in |
| | | | | | |development for years, |
| | | | | | |now abandoned? |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Bringing you shaped |
| | | | | | |windows, |
| | | | | | |configurability, and |
| | | | | |Orig. Geoff |heavy graphics since |
| | | | | |"Mandrake" Harrison|2000. Originally based |
| |[homepage] | | | |and Carsten |on fvwm 2. Big Samsung |
|Enlightenment|[Wikipedia]|0.25.3 |20220210|20220506|"Rasterman" |funding 2009-11. Version|
| | | | | |Haitzler. Now a |E17 dropped 2012-12 |
| | | | | |large team. |after a decade wait. |
| | | | | | |Download is big: this is|
| | | | | | |a "Desktop Environment,"|
| | | | | | |not just a WM these |
| | | | | | |days. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |"Small, fast, light." |
| |[homepage] | | | |Students at EPITA |School project. Appears |
|EPIwm |[Wikipedia]|0.5.6 |20020110|20220502|in France. |fairly themeable. Last |
| | | | | | |developed in the age of |
| | | | | | |the 80386 ... |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |"... minimalist, tiling |
| | | | | | |window manager ... |
| | | | | | |easy-to-learn, vim-like |
| | | | | | |key-bindings ... seeks |
| |[homepage] | | | | |to ... balance the ease |
|euclid-wm |[Wikipedia]|0.4.3 |20131216|20220530|William Diem |of use common among |
| | | | | | |automatic-layout tiling |
| | | | | | |window manager with the |
| | | | | | |flexibility of manual |
| | | | | | |layout WMs." BSD |
| | | | | | |license. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |"A non-wimp window |
| | | | | | |manager for X11 based |
| | | | | | |loosely on evilwm and |
| | | | | | |Ratpoison." Used to |
| | | | | | |claim it was "evilwm |
| | | | | | |source code with |
| | | | | | |Ratpoison-like key |
| |[homepage] | | | |Clive Crous, Pasi |bindings." Crous' |
|EvilPoison |[Wikipedia]|not available | | |Kallinen |projects vanish |
| | | | | | |frequently (201009, |
| | | | | | |201011, 201101). |
| | | | | | |2012-02: Slashdot |
| | | | | | |announced that Crous |
| | | | | | |will be the head of |
| | | | | | |Linux Game Publishing, |
| | | | | | |2014-10: WM vanished |
| | | | | | |entirely. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Minimalistic keyboard |
|evilwm |[homepage] |1.3.1 |20210730|20220502|Ciaran Anscomb |driven WM with vi- and |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |nethack-like key |
| | | | | | |bindings. 2003 Review |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Applied Apple |
| | | | | | |Expose-like behaviour to|
| | | | | | |Metacity. Development |
| | | | | | |discontinued around |
| | | | | | |2005: "This version is |
| | | | | | |now outdated and the |
| |[homepage] | | | | |modern X window system |
|expocity |[Wikipedia]|not available | | | |nowadays allows for much|
| | | | | | |better effects than what|
| | | | | | |was possible with |
| | | | | | |expocity." Web page |
| | | | | | |deceased: last known |
| | | | | | |address: http:// |
| | | | | | |www.pycage.de/#expocity |
| | | | | | |. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
|Emacs X | | | | | |Makes Emacs your tiling |
|Window |[homepage] |0.26 |20211109|20220425|Chris (git: |Window Manager. (See |
|Manager |[Wikipedia]| | | |"ch11ng") Feng |also XWEM.) Written in |
|(EXWM) | | | | | |Emacs Lisp. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
|failsafewm | | | | | |Bundled with swm. See |
| | | | | | |swm. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Written from scratch in |
| | | | | | |C, inspired by Fluxbox, |
| | | | | | |HackedBox, Blackbox, |
|Firebox |[homepage] |not available | | |Cyrille Bagard |Enlightenment, and |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |WindowLab, but |
| | | | | | |particularly by Openbox |
| | | | | | |and wmii. Site vanished |
| | | | | | |~201106. Notes |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Child of Blackbox with |
| |[homepage] | | | | |built-in keybindings and|
|Fluxbox |[Wikipedia]|1.3.7 |20150208|20220502|Henrik Kinnunen |the tabs from PWM, quite|
| | | | | | |popular. A personal |
| | | | | | |favourite. 2003 Review |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Vertical titlebars, |
| | | | | | |inspired by (and |
| | | | | | |codebase from) wm2. |
| |[homepage] | | | | |Requires fltk libraries |
|FLWM |[Wikipedia]|1.02 |20060630|20220503|Bill Spitzak |by the same author. |
| | | | | | |Version "0.25" (which |
| | | | | | |appears to be newer) can|
| | | | | | |be found in the linked |
| | | | | | |git repo. Review. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Not a WM, a "Desktop |
| | | | | | |User Interface ... for |
| | | | | | |childrens (and others) |
| | | | | | |... works with pentium |
| | | | | | |200 minimalist |
|FpcBol |[homepage] |2.0 beta |20100907|20220506|Florence Gestio |configuration." Requires|
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |festival and mbrola to |
| | | | | | |speak. "FPC" indicates |
| | | | | | |it's written for the |
| | | | | | |Free Pascal Compiler. |
| | | | | | |Requires Metacity or |
| | | | | | |Compiz? |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Written in old version |
| | | | | | |of Eiffel and requires |
| |[homepage] | | | | |wxWindows (probably an |
|Framer |[Wikipedia]|0.1 |20030421|20220505|Christoph Dietze |old version), meant to |
| | | | | | |go with ROX. Appears to |
| | | | | | |be abandoned, ROX has |
| | | | | | |moved on. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | |20200729| | |Tiling WM forked from |
|FrankenWM |[homepage] |1.0.23 / git |/ |20220527|Robin "sulami" |monsterwm. Written in C,|
| |[Wikipedia]| |20211029| |Schroer |only configurable on |
| | | | | | |compile. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Version 1 of this |
| | | | | | |venerable WM remained |
| |[homepage] | | | |Robert Nation et |available from their |
|fvwm 1 |[Wikipedia]|not available | | |al. |website for 20 years |
| | | | | | |after its release, but |
| | | | | | |is finally gone in |
| | | | | | |mid-2016. See fvwm 2. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Flexible appearance and |
| | | | | | |behaviour, and a very |
| | | | | | |long history. Version |
| | | | | | |2.7.0 predates 2.6.4 |
|fvwm 2 |[homepage] |2.6.9 |20190905|20220506|Robert Nation et |considerably, don't know|
| |[Wikipedia]| | | |al. |why. As of 202001 or |
| | | | | | |earlier, this is in |
| | | | | | |"maintenance mode" and |
| | | | | | |version 3 is |
| | | | | | |recommended. 2003 Review|
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Version 3 is a |
| | | | | | |work-in-progress as I |
|fvwm 3 |[homepage] |1.0.4 |20210717|20220506|Thomas Adam et al |add it 2020-01. As of |
| | | | | |at GitHub |2020-09 they're showing |
| | | | | | |1.0.x, which is |
| | | | | | |promising. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |fvwm 2 modified to look |
| |[homepage] | | | | |and act like Windows 95.|
|fvwm95 |[Wikipedia]|2.0.43f |20030503|20220507|Hector Peraza |Among the downloads |
| | | | | | |there is also a (older) |
| | | | | | |file called fvwm98. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |fvwm 2 dressed up to |
|fvwm-crystal |[homepage] |3.7.1 |20201215|20220507|Maciej Delmanowski |look and act even |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |better. Requires a |
| | | | | | |recent version of fvwm2.|
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |The abandoned |
| | | | | | |predecessor to echinus |
| | | | | | |wm. Based on dwm's |
| | | | | | |source code, partly |
|fwm |[homepage] |not available | | |Alexander Polakov |inspired by Plan 9's |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |rio. Site disappeared |
| | | | | | |~200810, last known |
| | | | | | |address http:// |
| | | | | | |koluthcka.ru/fwm/ |
| | | | | | |fwm.html |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |"FOX Desktop", built |
| | | | | | |using the FOX toolkit. |
| | | | | | |The homepage listed here|
|fxwm |[homepage] |not available | | |Sander Jansen |is the author's. No |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |download is available - |
| | | | | | |in fact, no mention of |
| | | | | | |it is made at all |
| | | | | | |anymore. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |A variant of Mutter used|
| | | | | | |by Elementary OS. Looks |
|Gala |[homepage] |6.3.1 |20220407|20220507| |hard to build outside of|
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |Elementary, but it's |
| | | | | | |available as a Fedora |
| | | | | | |package! |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |"... cross-platform |
| | | | | | |web-based TUIO-enabled |
| | | | | | |multi-touch window |
| | | | | | |manager. ... runs |
| | | | | | |everything in |
| | | | | | |texture-mapped web |
| | | | | | |browser windows so that |
|Glassomium |[homepage] |0.3 |20121216|20220519|Piero Toffanin |you can focus on |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |creating applications |
| | | | | | |..." C++, Apache |
| | | | | | |license, large (0.3 src |
| | | | | | |= 137MB - includes the |
| | | | | | |Berkelium library, large|
| | | | | | |parts of Angry Birds |
| | | | | | |Rio, and a Windows Ruby |
| | | | | | |installer). |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |This is a Desktop |
| | | | | | |Environment and NOT a |
| |[homepage] | | | | |Window Manager. They |
|GNOME |[Wikipedia]|42.1 |20220426|20220530| |rely on other WMs, |
| | | | | | |previously Enlightenment|
| | | | | | |and Sawfish, now |
| | | | | | |Metacity or Compiz. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |"get out of my way, w |
| |[homepage] | | | | |indow manager!" Tiling, |
|goomwwm |[Wikipedia]|git |20150517|20220530|Sean Pringle |tagging, |
| | | | | | |keyboard-driven. Same |
| | | | | | |author as xoat. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | |Orig. Jordan |Nice looking, once |
|Golem |[homepage] |0.0.6 |20060301|20220507|DeLong, now Bruce |promising project, now |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | |Ashfield. |apparently abandoned. |
| | | | | | |BSD license. 2003 Review|
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |"Generic" WM. v1.8 in |
| | | | | | |1995 (permissive |
| | | | | | |license), new author |
| | | | | | |with v2.0 in 2005, |
| | | | | | |complete rewrite (GPL). |
| | | | | | |Uses "an interpreted |
| |[homepage] | | | |Colas Nahaboo |dialect of Lisp with |
|gwm |[Wikipedia]|not available | | |(v1?), Anders Holst|specific window |
| | | | | |(v2) |management primitives." |
| | | | | | |Website goes down |
| | | | | | |occasionally. Look |
| | | | | | |further down for a link |
| | | | | | |to v2.1+ downloads. Some|
| | | | | | |(older) documentation |
| | | | | | |here. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Inspired by gwm (Generic|
| | | | | | |Window Manager), written|
| | | | | | |in and configured using |
| | | | | | |Objective CAML (OCAML). |
| | | | | | |"May never get past |
|GwML |[homepage] |not available | | |Fabrice Le Fessant |Alpha," GwML is a side |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |project to go with the |
| | | | | | |editor Efuns. Package |
| | | | | | |vanished 200909, site |
| | | | | | |dead 201111, pointing to|
| | | | | | |author's site (which has|
| | | | | | |broken links). |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Modified/simplified |
| |[homepage] | | | | |Blackbox. Most notably, |
|HackedBox |[Wikipedia]|not available | | |Larry Owen |the toolbar and slit |
| | | | | | |were removed. Site died |
| | | | | | |~201310. 2003 Review |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
|Haydar |[homepage] | | | | |HDE closely emulates the|
|Desktop |[Wikipedia]|2.0.3 |20080322|20220530|Haydar Alkaduhimi |appearance of Windows |
|Environment | | | | | |Vista. Depends on QT4. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| |[homepage] | | | | |mlvwm (Macintosh-8/ |
|HaZe |[Wikipedia]|0.2 |20010520|20220509|argonaut_@yahoo.com|9-alike) modified - very|
| | | | | | |black and white. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Intended to be extremely|
| | | | | | |small and light ("to |
|heliwm |[homepage] |1.13 |20060303|20220509|Hidetoshi Ohtomo |save electricity |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |consumption"). No |
| | | | | | |virtual desktops. 2003 |
| | | | | | |Review |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| |[homepage] | | | | |2011 Tiling WM borrowing|
|Herbstluftwm |[Wikipedia]|0.9.4 |20220316|20220509|Thorsten Wissmann |ideas from i3, musca, |
| | | | | | |xmonad, and wmii. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |"A lightweight, tiling |
| | | | | | |X11 window manager that |
|howm |[homepage] |git |20211007|20220509|Harvey Hunt |mimics vi by offering |
| | | | | | |operators, motions and |
| | | | | | |modes." |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Developed because the |
|i3 |[homepage] |4.20.1 |20201103|20220509|Michael Stapelberg |author was unsatisfied |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |with wmii. Tiling WM, |
| | | | | | |revised BSD license. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Originally written (in |
| | | | | |Originally Marko |C++) to emulate OS/2 and|
|IceWM |[homepage] |2.9.7 |20220502|20220517|Macek, then Mathias|Windows 95/98, but it's |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | |Hasselmann, now |grown. Themeable and has|
| | | | | |Brian Bidulock. |virtual desktops. 2003 |
| | | | | | |Review |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |QT-based. As of 20081004|
| | | | | | |the index.php page is |
| | | | | | |displaying only the |
| |[homepage] | | | | |entry page and won't |
|Integrity |[Wikipedia]|1.0 |20040808|20220511|Jason Athey |show downloads or |
| | | | | | |anything else. For the |
| | | | | | |source: http:// |
| | | | | | |sourceforge.net/projects|
| | | | | | |/integrity/. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
|Interface |[homepage] |0.2.5 |20030914|20220511|Ian Mondragon |Written in Objective C |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |for GNUstep. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Keyboard-driven framing |
| | | | | | |tabbed WM. Successor to |
| | | | | | |PWM. Custom license |
| | | | | | |based on LGPL. Read |
| |[homepage] | | | | |about the author at the |
|Ion |[Wikipedia]|3-20090110 |20090110|20220511|Tuomo Valkonen |Wikipedia entry ... |
| | | | | | |following that, no more |
| | | | | | |downloads at his site, |
| | | | | | |the content is hosted |
| | | | | | |elsewhere. Continued by |
| | | | | | |notion. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Uses the code base of |
|JBWM |[homepage] |1.62 |20200314|20220511|Jeffrey E. "jefbed"|aewm and ideas from |
| | | | | |Bedard |evilwm to try to make a |
| | | | | | |fast and lightweight WM.|
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Java Desktop for X. |
| | | | | |Tay Hock Keong, |Meant for Java |
| |[homepage] | | | |Brandon Tay, Joseph|programmers. Written in |
|JD4X |[Wikipedia]|0.6 |20060201|20220517|Gledhill, Marc |a mix of Java and C. |
| | | | | |Patteet, |(Probably incredibly |
| | | | | |Christopher R. |hard/impossible to build|
| | | | | | |in 2022.) |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |A spin-off of aewm++/ |
| | | | | | |Sapphire (thus the |
| | | | | | |name), this is also |
|Jewel |[homepage] |0.12.40 |20020823|20220517|MJ Ray |written in C++. They |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |started to try to |
| | | | | | |rewrite it in Objective |
| | | | | | |C as well, but that |
| | | | | | |never materialized. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Was LMMS, "Linux |
| | | | | | |MultiMedia System," |
| | | | | | |Renamed 200709. Intended|
| | | | | | |as a way of accessing |
| |[homepage] | | | | |photos, audio, video, |
|JoyWM |[Wikipedia]|not available | | |mfranke@dulug.de |etc. on a limited screen|
| | | | | | |with a joystick. "... a |
| | | | | | |GUI written in pygame |
| | | | | | |..." Page had been empty|
| | | | | | |for a couple years, died|
| | | | | | |2011-10. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Joe's WM - similar to |
|JWM |[homepage] |2.4.1 |20220226|20220425|Joe Wingbermuehle |IceWM and Windows 98. As|
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |of v2.3.6, license has |
| | | | | | |switched to MIT. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | |Eugene Pervago, | |
| | | | | |Nick Wesch, Daniel |Fork of Waimea with |
| |[homepage] | | | |Brown, Michael |scripting added. |
|Kahakai |[Wikipedia]|0.6.2 |20040207|20220530|Brailsford, Alex |Discontinued, followed |
| | | | | |Earl, Faugn, |by Aegis. |
| | | | | |Hyriand, Jeff | |
| | | | | |Hughes. | |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |"There is no |
| | | | | | |configuration file and |
| | | | | | |no library dependencies |
| |[homepage] | | | | |other than Xlib. The |
|Karmen |[Wikipedia]|0.15 |20081228|20220527|Johan Veenhuizen |input focus model is |
| | | | | | |click-to-focus. Karmen |
| | | | | | |aims at ICCCM and EWMH |
| | | | | | |compliance." Same author|
| | | | | | |as the more recent Wind.|
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |KDE (unlike its best |
| |[homepage] | | | | |known competitor) does |
|KDE |[Wikipedia]|5.24.4 |20220421|20220607| |include a Window |
| | | | | | |Manager, kwin. Famous, |
| | | | | | |big, pretty. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Keyboard-driven, |
| | | | | | |minimalist, auto-tiling |
|larswm |[homepage] |not available | | |Lars Bernhardsson |(the first?). Based on |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |9wm. Includes Xinerama |
| | | | | | |support. Website died |
| | | | | | |~200910. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
|LeftWM |[homepage] |0.3.0 |20220326|20220519|Lex "lex148" Childs|Tiling WM, MIT license, |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |written in Rust. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |"Linux MultiMedia |
| | | | | | |System." "LMMS is a |
| | | | | | |project trying to create|
| | | | | | |a gui for TV that can be|
| | | | | | |used with a gamepad/ |
|LMMS | |not available | | |mfranke@dulug.de |joystick. In future |
| | | | | | |there shall be various |
| | | | | | |applications for playing|
| | | | | | |audiofiles ... and |
| | | | | | |videofiles ..." As of |
| | | | | | |200709 this project has |
| | | | | | |been renamed JoyWM. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | |Colin M. Bullock, | |
| | | | | |Christian Ost, | |
| | | | | |David Weizades, |3D desktop environment |
| | | | | |Deron Johnson, Van |written in Java. |
| | | | | |der Haegen Mathieu,|Declared "practically |
|Looking Glass|[homepage] | | | |Kirk Turner, |dead" 200909. Previously|
|3D |[Wikipedia]|not available | | |Giordano Fracasso, |sponsored by Sun. Never |
| | | | | |Hideya Kawahara, |passed early beta. Bad |
| | | | | |Krishna Gadepalli, |security certificate. |
| | | | | |Juan Gonzalez, Paul|Site dead 2012-04. |
| | | | | |Byrne, Phil Dowell,| |
| | | | | |Pierre Ducroquet, | |
| | | | | |Radek Kierner. | |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | |the Liri team ... |The (graphical) "shell" |
| |[homepage] | | | |but primarily Pier |for Liri OS. May not be |
|Liri OS Shell|[Wikipedia]|git |20220124|20220520|Luigi ("plfiorini")|buildable without that: |
| | | | | |Fiorini |requires at least Qt and|
| | | | | | |Wayland. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |MIT license tiling WM |
|Lucca WM |[homepage] |0.1.2 |20080422|20220602|Vincent Povirk |intended for GNOME. |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |Written in C, requires |
| | | | | | |GTK and XLib. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| |[homepage] | | | |Originally Elliott |"Lightweight" WM, fairly|
|lwm |[Wikipedia]|1.2.4 |20160212|20220602|Hughes. Maintenance|minimal decorations. |
| | | | | |by James Carter. | |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Modification of Metacity|
| | | | | | |. Discontinued in favour|
|Luminocity |[homepage] |? |2005? |20220520| |of Compiz/Beryl? I don't|
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |think there's any code |
| | | | | | |to be downloaded |
| | | | | | |anymore. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Defaults to tiling mode,|
| | | | | | |with simple resizing. |
| | | | | | |Also does stacking mode.|
| | | | | | |Includes a "title menu" |
|Lunchbox |[homepage] |git |20151107|20220520|Alysander Stanley |to replace tabs. |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |"Working toward EWMH and|
| | | | | | |ICCCM compliance." |
| | | | | | |University project: will|
| | | | | | |it continue? Written in |
| | | | | | |C. Notes (2010) |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Not a WM. "LXP is a |
| | | | | | |desktop environment |
| | | | | | |identical to Windows XP.|
| | | | | | |LXP is a collection of |
|LXP |[homepage] |0.2-1d |20070208|20220520|Manuel Carrasco |different pieces of GNU |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |software (IceWM, xfe, |
| | | | | | |idesk, etc) modified in |
| | | | | | |order to look and feel |
| | | | | | |identical to Windows |
| | | | | | |XP." |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |The "Lightweight X11 |
| | | | | | |Desktop Environment" |
| | | | | | |(this isn't a window |
|LXDE |[homepage] |0.10.1 |20210225|20220506|"The LXDE Team" |manager, it's a DE). A |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |lighter alternative to |
| | | | | | |KDE or GNOME. Uses |
| | | | | | |Openbox as the default |
| | | | | | |WM. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |The "Lightweight Qt |
| | | | | | |Desktop Environment" |
| |[homepage] | | | | |(forked from LXDE). A |
|LXQt |[Wikipedia]|1.1.0 |20220415|20220426|"The LXQt Team" |lighter alternative to |
| | | | | | |KDE or GNOME. Uses |
| | | | | | |Openbox as the default |
| | | | | | |WM. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Hack of aewm. Info and |
| |[homepage] | | | | |homepage from |
|maewm |[Wikipedia]|not available | | | |xwinman.org. URL seems |
| | | | | | |to have died permanently|
| | | | | | |201008. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Mac OS 8/9-alike. |
| | | | | | |Radical change of |
| | | | | | |website ~200903, and |
| |[homepage] | | | | |went from v0.6 to git |
|Manix |[Wikipedia]|not available | | |Magnus Sjostrand |only. Needs SCons (and |
| | | | | | |git of course) to build.|
| | | | | | |Activity ceased around |
| | | | | | |200903? Site blank |
| | | | | | |201005, dead 201011. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Fork of Metacity, window|
| |[homepage] | | | | |manager for the MATE |
|Marco |[Wikipedia]|1.26.0 |20210804|20220602|MATE maintainers(?)|desktop. Probably not |
| | | | | | |something you'd run on |
| | | | | | |its own. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Intended for handhelds |
| | | | | | |and very small screens. |
| | | | | | |Almost a full desktop |
| | | | | | |(not just WM). Runs on |
|Matchbox |[homepage] |not available | | |Matthew Allum |the Nokia Internet |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |Tablets, the OLPC, and |
| | | | | | |the OpenMoko phone. |
| | | | | | |Development has stalled,|
| | | | | | |site dead 2011-12. 2003 |
| | | | | | |Review |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |A simplistic overlapping|
| | | | | | |X11 window manager for |
| | | | | | |POSIX systems." "... |
| | | | | | |window frames with |
| | | | | | |titlebar and buttons, |
| | | | | | |configurable key |
|matwm2 |[homepage] |git |20200727|20220520|Mattis Michel |bindings and mouse |
| | | | | | |buttons, support for |
| | | | | | |EWMH and motif hints, |
| | | | | | |focus-follows-mouse and |
| | | | | | |click-to-focus focus |
| | | | | | |models, virtual |
| | | | | | |desktops, Xft fonts and |
| | | | | | |xinerama support." |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |No connection to OS X |
| |[homepage] | | | | |despite name. Based on |
|mavosxwm |[Wikipedia]|0.2.1 |20030221|20220528|Martin Vollrathson |wm2. 200808: download |
| | | | | | |link broken, check |
| | | | | | |sourceforge link . |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Similar to the |
| | | | | | |proprietary Silicon |
| | | | | | |Graphics IRIX 4Dwm, |
|Maxx | | | | | |previously called 5dwm. |
|Interactive |[homepage] |2.1.1 |2020-06?|20220517|Eric Masson |Restrictive license with|
|Desktop |[Wikipedia]| | | | |SGI (not open source, |
| | | | | | |although he claims |
| | | | | | |they're opening it). |
| | | | | | |Site has changed and/or |
| | | | | | |vanished in the past. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |"Based on mlvwm with |
| | | | | | |elements from HaZe. |
| | | | | | |Added style for menubar,|
|mazewm |[homepage] |1.0.1 |20140121|20220525|"goingnuts" |menus and desktop |
| | | | | |(Sourceforge name) |background. Added sound |
| | | | | | |theme capabilities." |
| | | | | | |Claims a very small |
| | | | | | |memory footprint. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Floating (not tiling) |
| | | | | | |minimalist WM. Built on |
| | | | | | |XCB, doesn't use Xlib. |
|mcwm |[homepage] |git/20181007 |20181007|20220503|Michael "MC" |ISC license. Borrows |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | |Cardell Widerkrantz|ideas from ctwm, evilwm,|
| | | | | | |vi / nethack, tinywm. |
| | | | | | |Declared "stopped" late |
| | | | | | |2013. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |mdt = "Mouse Driven |
| | | | | | |Tiling" (virtually all |
| | | | | | |tiling WMs are very |
|mdtwm |[homepage] |git |20200709|20220525|Michal "ziutek" |keyboard-oriented). |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | |Derkacz |Written in Go. Strange |
| | | | | | |mouse choices, using the|
| | | | | | |right mouse button for |
| | | | | | |all actions. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |"Boring window manager |
| | | | | | |for the adult in you. |
| | | | | | |Many window managers are|
| | | | | | |like Marshmallow Froot |
|Metacity |[homepage] |3.44.0 |20220319|20220604|"GNOME Team" |Loops; Metacity is like |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |Cheerios." (the |
| | | | | | |developers.) Doesn't do |
| | | | | | |much without GNOME. See |
| | | | | | |also this not-a-homepage|
| | | | | | |. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Very pretty psuedo-3D |
| | | | | | |effects, testbed WM |
| | | | | | |based on FVWM 2.5.x. |
| | | | | | |Brought forward by |
| | | | | | |Mandriva spring 2007. |
| |[homepage] | | | |Olivier Chapuis, |Requires its own |
|Metisse |[Wikipedia]|0.4.1 |20081209|20220604|Nicolas Roussel |modified X server |
| | | | | | |("nucleo"). A lot of |
| | | | | | |reading and compiling is|
| | | | | | |called for: I was unable|
| | | | | | |to get it (v0.4.0-rc4) |
| | | | | | |to work myself. Active |
| | | | | | |2009-10, stalled 2011? |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Part of Symphony OS, a |
| | | | | | |modification of fvwm 2 |
| | | | | | |that runs on a modified |
| | | | | | |(?) Ubuntu. Website |
| |[homepage] | | | | |makes grandiose |
|Mezzo |[Wikipedia]|not available | | |Ryan Quinn |statements about running|
| | | | | | |all Linux and Windows |
| | | | | | |apps ... but development|
| | | | | | |appears to be at a |
| | | | | | |standstill. Site died |
| | | | | | |approx. 201012. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |"Mass Interactive |
| | | | | | |Desktop for Linux," |
| | | | | | |another name for 5Dwm |
|MID4Linux | | | | | |which imitates the Irix |
| | | | | | |Magic Desktop. See MaXX |
| | | | | | |Interactive Desktop, the|
| | | | | | |new name for 5Dwm. |
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |"Microscopic" WM, |
| | | | | | |written in C++, |
| | | | | | |"incorporating lessons |
| |[homepage] | | | | |from lwm, awm, wmx, |
|miwm |[Wikipedia]|1-1 |20030709|20220525|Ben Paul Wise |Blackbox, and UDE. |
| | | | | | |Example code was lifted |
| | | | | | |from awm, lwm and wmx, |
| | | | | | |but also rather |
| | | | | | |extensively re-written."|
|-------------+-----------+--------------+--------+--------+-------------------+------------------------|
| | | | | | |Macintosh like virtual |
|mlvwm |[homepage] |0.9.1 |20000627|20220528|Takahashi Hasegawa |WM. (The website is so |
| |[Wikipedia]| | | | |old (2000!) it uses the |
| | | | | | |