[[Interface::window-manager]]

Bspwm: bspwm is a tiling window manager that represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree. It only responds to X events, and the messages it receives on a dedicated socket. bspc is a program that writes messages on bspwm's socket. bspwm doesn't handle any keyboard or pointer inputs: a third party program (e.g. sxhkd) is needed in order to translate keyboard and pointer events to bspc invocations.

Common Desktop Environment: The Common Desktop Environment was created by a collaboration of Sun, HP, IBM, DEC, SCO, Fujitsu and Hitachi. Used on a selection of commercial UNIXs, it is now available as free software for the first time.

Cwm: 'cwm' (calmwm) is a window manager originally inspired by evilwm. It has several novel features, including the ability to search for windows and a very simple and attractive aesthetic.

DWM: dwm is a fast and simple window manager for X11. It manages windows in tiling and floating modes. Either mode can be applied dynamically, optimizing the environment for the application in use and the task performed. Windows can be tagged with one or multiple tags. Selecting certain tags displays all windows that are accordingly tagged. dwm is the little brother of wmii.

Dextra: A dynamic window manager with extra repository, themes, styles, and dotfiles.

Dmenu: dynamic menu is a generic menu for X, originally designed for dwm. It manages huge amounts (up to 10.000 and more) of user defined menu items efficiently.

Dungeon-mode: Dungeon-mode is a game engine and REPL for creating and playing multi-user dungeons written primarily in emacs lisp. While playing a game created with dungeon-mode doesn’t necessarily require Emacs authoring game environments (e.g. worlds) does, as do assigning special powers, resolving Ghod calls, Sage encounters, and Ubic -if enabled- or any other or custom events with a dm-intractable property set to a non-nil value. Dungeon Masters may specify delegation rosters to support cooperative oversight and enable teams to direct the play experience.

dwl is intended to fill the same space in the Wayland world that dwm does in X11, primarily in terms of philosophy, and secondarily in terms of functionality. dwl is easy to understand, minimal, extendable, and tied to as few external dependencies as possible.

Features

Any features provided by dwm/Xlib: simple window borders, tags, keybindings, client rules, mouse move/resize (excluding built-in status bar)
Configurable multi-monitor layout support, including position and rotation
Configurable HiDPI/multi-DPI support
Provide information to external status bars via stdout/stdin
Urgency hints via xdg-activate protocol
Various Wayland protocols
XWayland support as provided by wlroots
Zero flickering - Wayland users naturally expect that "every frame is perfect"

Dwm: dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts. All of the layouts can be applied dynamically, optimizing the environment for the application in use and the task performed. In tiled layout windows are managed in a master and stacking area. The master area contains the window which currently needs most attention, whereas the stacking area contains all other windows. In monocle layout all windows are maximised to the screen size. In floating layout windows can be resized and moved freely. Dialog windows are always managed floating, regardless of the layout applied. Please notice that dwm is currently customized through editing its source code, so you probably want to build your own dwm packages. This package is compiled with the default configuration and should just give you an idea about what dwm brings to your desktop.

E-xmms: E-xmms is a Enlightenment applet that interfaces with XMMS. It will compare the previous and current states to determine if window painting should be done.

E2wm: E2WM is a window manager for Emacs. It enables to customize the place of pop-up window, how the windows are split, how the buffers are located in the windows, keybinds to manipulate windows and buffers, etc. It also has plugins, namely dedicated windows for specific purpose, something close to Eclipse views.

Efsane II: Efsane is an X window manager programmed in C++. It can run any X application (KDE and GNOME also included). It can be installed under any GNU/Linux distribution.

Enlightenment: Enlightenment is a themeable, fast, flexible, and powerful window manager that runs on everything from small mobile devices to powerful multi-core desktops. The Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) comprise a suite of libraries to help you create beautiful user interfaces.

Exwm

EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager) is a full-featured tiling X window manager for Emacs built on top of XELB. It features:

Fully keyboard-driven operation
Hybrid layout modes (tiling & stacking)
Workspace support
ICCCM/EWMH compliance
Basic RandR support (optional)

The latest version is available via GNU ELPA. To install this package, run in Emacs: M-x package-install RET exwm RET

Fancy9menu: 'fancy9menu' is a small shell script that lets you easily implement a system of menus using 9menu and xwit. It ensures that only one copy of any distinct 9menu instance is running at a time. If no entry is running, it starts one.

Felidae

Felidae is a collection of modules for FVWM written in Perl. Currently it contains:

FvwmWallpaper
FvwmStorage
FvwmOsd
FvwmXMMS

Fluxbox: Fluxbox is a lightweight and highly configurable window manager with pwm-like tabs.

Flwm

flwm is a window manager based on wm2. Primary features are:

Nifty sideways titlebars.
No icons. You deiconize by picking off a pop-up menu. This means no space is wasted by icons.
The same pop-up menu controls multiple desktops and lets you launch programs.
Occupies as little screen space as possible. The border and titles are as thin as they could possibly be. And maximized windows waste zero pixels vertically.
Independent maximize buttons for width & height.
Understands Motif, KDE, and Gnome window manager hints, and works with SGI programs that assume 4DWM.
Really small and fast code.

FramebufferUI: FBUI is a small, fast in-kernel GUI windowing system for the Linux kernel whose core is currently about 32kB large. It lets you put windows in each framebuffer-based virtual console, read keyboard input, track a mouse pointer, and respond to typical GUI events. Each process may have more than one window, and accesses its windows completely independently of all other processes. It supports windows on every virtual console, and there is no concept of parent and child windows. Each virtual console can have its own optional window manager process

Fresco: Fresco (formerly known as Berlin) is a windowing system derived from a powerful structured graphics +toolkit originally based on InterViews. Fresco extends earlier incarnations +to the status of a full windowing system, in command of the video hardware +(via GGI, SDL, DirectFB or GLUT) and processing user input directly rather +than peering with a host windowing system. Additionally, Fresco's extensions include a rich drawing interface with +multiple backends, an upgrade to modern CORBA standards, a new Unicode-capable +text system, dynamic module loading, and many communication abstractions for +connecting other processes to the server. It is developed entirely by +volunteers on the internet, using free software. This project was formerly known as Berlin.

Frugal Windowing Environment: This is a candidate for deletion: Links broken. No archive.org entry. No response from maintainer. Poppy-one (talk) 11:58, 5 August 2018 (EDT) Frugal Windowing Environment is a user-space client-server windowing environment that uses the framebuffer. It is the next logical development of FBUI.

Fvwm: FVWM is an extremely powerful ICCCM-compliant multiple virtual desktop window manager for the X Window system. Originally (long time ago) derived from twm. FVWM is intended to have a small memory footprint and a rich feature set, be extremely customizable and extendable. It is highly extensible through its module interface. This 2.6 version includes new features like full support of the EWMH (Extended Window Manager Hints) specification, internationalization, improved window decoration code (no flickering anymore), bi-directional asian text support, FreeType font support (antialiasing), image rendering, Perl based module library, support for PNG images, side titles and much more.

GNOME Shell Extension TaskBar: TaskBar is a GNOME Shell extension. It displays icons of running applications on the top panel or alternatively on a new bottom panel. Activate, minimize or close tasks with a simple click. TaskBar is a dock-like windows list on the top/bottom bar. Development stopped Last stable version (Apr 5, 2018 / available here): 57.0 Last updates (Oct 17, 2018): https://github.com/zpydr/gnome-shell-extension-taskbar/tree/39b36aba2611c42cefbbf9beab60d46ce75ec82c

Gargoyle: Gargoyle is an IF player that supports all the major interactive fiction formats. Most interactive fiction is distributed as portable game files. These portable game files come in many formats. In the past, you used to have to download a separate player (interpreter) for each format of IF you wanted to play. Gargoyle is based on the standard interpreters for the formats it supports. Gargoyle is free software released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Garlic-player: The garlic player is a SMIL compatible media player software for digital signage. It displays different digital signage content, such as images, videos, and interactive applications, on a screen. The garlic-player can be used and administrated locally or remote via Internet.

Gnome: GNOME is an easy and elegant desktop environment. It is designed to put you in control and bring freedom to everybody. GNOME is developed by the GNOME community, a diverse, international group of contributors that is supported by an independent, non-profit foundation. The GNOME project has a tradition of high-quality interface design which has been strongly influenced by usability principles and practice. GNOME software is available in a large number of spoken languages, and the project aims to ensure that its software is usable for everyone, including people with disabilities.

Guile-wm: Guile-WM is a framework for creating an X window manager (or any other X application, really) and a set of useful modules designed for that purpose.

Gworkspace: GWorkspace is the official GNUstep workspace and file manager. It is a clone of NeXT's workspace manager. It is ready for daily usage, and is available in English, French, German, Italian and Romanian. Besides its standard Contents Inspectors (App, Folder, Image, Sound, Pdf-Ps, Rtf, text, Plist, Strings and Inspector viewers), GWorkspace can dynamically load other modules which you can build separately. Simply put them in a place where GWorkspace looks for them, (ie ~/GNUstep/Library/GWorkspace). In the same way you can add other viewers besides the standard Browser, Icon and Small Icons viewers.

I3: i3 is a tiling X11 window manager that dynamically manages tiled, stacked, and tabbed window layouts. It primarily targets advanced users. Windows are managed manually and organized inside containers, which can be split vertically or horizontally, and optionally resized. i3 uses a plain-text configuration file, and can be extended and controlled from many programming languages.

I3-gaps: i3-gaps is a fork of i3wm, a tiling window manager for X11. It is kept up to date with upstream, adding a few additional features such as gaps between windows.

IceMe: IceMe is a graphical menu and shortcut editor for the IceWM window manager, written in Python and GTK+. You can edit menu entries with drag and drop as well as cut and paste. Both the default menu and the local menu in the users home directory can be edited.

IceWM Control Center: The IceWM Control Center allows you to run various tools for configuring IceWM's options.

IceWm Control Panel

IceWM Control Panel is a full-featured, GTK-based control panel for IceWM. Current tools/modules include:

IceWMCP KeyEdit- Shortcut keys manager
IceWMCP Wallpaper- Wallpaper and desktop manager
IceWMCP Window Options- Window options manager
IceWMCP Mouse- Sets mouse speed
IceWMCP Keyboard- Sets keyboard repeat-rate
IceWMCP Cursors- Configures IceWM mouse cursors
IcePref2- Preferences manager.
IcePref2 Theme Designer- Theme creation utility
IceMe- Menu editor
IceWMCP Icon Browser- Utility for viewing and using icons
Ice Sound Manager- Sound events manager
PhrozenClock- Gtk+ Date/Time application
PySpool- LPRng printer spool manager
GtkPCCard- Gtk+ PC CARD manager
PyInstallShield- Installation method for .tar.gz/.tar.bz2 distributions
Bug-Reporter- Bug-reporting tool
Software Update Checker- Checks for software updates
tkPCCard- PC CARD manager

Icewm: IceWM is a window manager designed for speed, usability, and consistency. It is fully GNOME compliant, and partially KDE compliant. Use of the mouse is optional. NB. a fork of the original IceWM is available at https://github.com/bbidulock/icewm

Ion: Ion addresses the problem of navigating between windows by dividing the screen into frames that take up the whole screen and never overlap. Big displays have so much space that this should be convenient and smaller displays couldn't show more than one window at a time anyway. The frame layout is dynamic and different on each workspace. Given the tree instead of coordinate-based frame layout, moving between the frames can be conveniently done from the keyboard. As in PWM, the frames may have multiple clients attached. The author notes that programs with more than one window per document may become practically unusable under Ion. Terminal programs should work better than before, however. Other features include a general purpose line editor (called minibuffer in many text editors) and tab-completion in certain queries. Ion also has support for extensions (that are not wanted in the core source) as loadable modules.

Karmen: Karmen is an easy-to-use window manager for X. It is designed to just work. There is no configuration file, and no library dependencies other than Xlib. The input focus model is click-to-focus. It aims at ICCCM and EWMH compliance.

Larswm: 'Larswm' is a modified version of the 9wm window manager that adds virtual desktops, automatic window tiling, and many other features designed to make it a highly efficient user environment. One of the design goals is that you should never have to manually shuffle windows around on the screen. Another is that it should use as little CPU time, RAM, and screen space for itself as possible.

Lifeograph: Lifeograph is an off-line and private journal and note taking application.

Lumina Desktop: Lumina Desktop, also called Lumina, is a desktop environment developed as a graphical interface for the TrueOS operating system. Lumina is designed to use as few dependencies as possible. It also has a plugin system so the interface can be arranged any way the user wants.

Lwm: 'lwm' (Lightweight Window Manager) is a window manager for X that tries to keep out of your face. There are no icons, no button bars, no icon docks, no root menus, no nothing (other programs can provide those things). There is also no configurability, in the interest of remaining small.

Menushki: Menushki is a console menu converter and editor for various window managers, including WindowMaker, KDE, GNOME, BlackBox, Enlightenment, and IceWM.

Metacity: Metacity is a window manager based on GTK+ 2.0. It uses GTK to draw frames and Pango to render nice Unicode window titles.

Metisse: Metisse is an experimental X desktop with some OpenGL capacity. It consists of a virtual X server called Xwnc, a special version of FVWM, and a FVWM module FvwmAmetista. Xwnc is a mix of Xvnc and XDarwin. It draws nothing on your screen; everything is drawn into pixmaps. Similarly to Xvnc, but with a different protocol, Xwnc can send these pixmaps (and other information) to a "viewer";. FvwmAmetista is such a viewer; it uses OpenGL for rendering the X desktop into a window of a "regular" 3D accelerated X server.

Microscopic Window Manager: MIcroscopic Window Manager (MIWM) is a fast, small, minimalist, and extremely reliable window manager. It is designed to do the job very simply and unobtrusively, without constraining power users. It features optional auto-tiling, desktop cleanup, a user-defined root menu, optional previewing of hidden windows, variable numbers of virtual desktops, and configurable window behavior. It includes a simple, very effective memory management utility for leak detection.

More Speech: Desktop application that shows if replies to or from a Twitter user are being censored. Check your replies to see if you're being censored (a "shadowban"). Check replies to a newsmaker to see how heavily Twitter censors replies to them. The application uses browser automation to surf Twitter like a real user would, and writes HTML reports showing which tweets were censored. Note: despite claims to the contrary, Twitter heavily censors all kinds of users. They don't limit it to just one group.

Mutter: Mutter is a window and compositing manager that runs the GNOME desktop both on X and Wayland via OpenGL. While it can be used stand-alone, it is primarily developed to be used as the display core of a larger system such as GNOME Shell.

OpenProdoc: OpenProdoc is a Document Management System and a Thesaurus Manager. It allows to define the documents and folders/cases model needed for different kind of companies or institutions. It's multiplatform (Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac) and has a complete portable version that can be used without installation. Can be installed also in most of the J2EE servers and Databases servers. Provides Java and API REST for integration with different products Offers an OPAC function that can be easily configured.

Openbox: Openbox is a highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support. The box visual style is well known for its minimalistic appearance. Openbox uses the box visual style, while providing a greater number of options for theme developers than previous box implementations. It can also be used inside GNOME or KDE, or alongside an Emacs desktop environment.

Orbital: A Windowing and Compositing System

Oroborus Theme Changer: Oroborus Theme Changer is a miniapp written in TCL/Tk for changing the theme in the Oroborus window manager. As of Jan 27, 2004, this package is not longer being maintained.

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