Window Managers
Window Managers
Window Managers Links
- Window Managers for X Descriptions, screenshots, links, survey, etc.
- mlvwm Macintosh Like Virtual Window Manager
- B4Step Window Manager B4Step is a Window Manager running under X11R6 with a different way to manage window banners. It can use OpenGL routines for animations, is Gnome compliant and has also a sound support.
- GNUstep UNofficial Homepage News and information about GNUstep: ongoing effort to bring the OpenStep API to the Open Source community. Part of Free Software Foundation's GNU Project.
- LinuxPlanet Window Managers Page Reviews of, and tutorials on, window managers under Linux, for beginners.
- Unofficial WindowMaker Site This is the great site for anything related to WindowMaker. Lots of great tips and tricks. There is also a large listing of themes and icons for WindowMaker. Great downloads for those who want to DL. Also contains information for creating transparent backgrounds for rxvt and wterm and (fake) transparencies for xterm.
- Blackbox New minimal windowmanager
- Pie Menu Window Manager Window manager that uses pie menus.
- Ion Text-editorish, keyboard friendly window manager.
- Enlightenment window manager Enlightenment (or "E") is a window manager for X, providing a useful, and good looking graphical shell in which to work.
- Official AfterStep Development site Site dedicated to Development of the AfterStep Window Manager. Includes HTMLized sources, daily activity log, TODOs, etc.
- 9wm Homepage 9wm is a minimalistic, fast, simple, and small window manager.
- The Mlvwm + Kfm Site How to create a mac-like desktop in linux.
- Window Manager Icons Distribution a project to provide an efficient configurable icon distribution
- Generic Window Manager manual GWM is an X window manager you can program using LISP.
- GNUstep.org Official site of GNUstep: free implementation of NeXTStep/OpenStep specification.
- wmx wmx is also a window manager. Home page quote : "wmx is a window manager for X. It's based on wm2, and it retains a similar look and feel, but it's intended to provide an experimental vehicle for features that fall comfortably outside the scope of the manifesto for the original wm2."
- CDE official site from Open Group Desktop Technologies for the commercial Common Desktop Environment
- Blackbox Blackbox is a window managers for the Open Group's X Window System, Version 11 Release 6 and above.
- Qvwm Home Page Windowmanager that aims to look like Windows 95
- Fast Light Window Manager Derived from wm2. Source code and binaries available.
- Themes.org: All things for X Themes.org is the definitive themes page for every major Window Manager on the planet. And is the official themes page for things such as GTK. With over 500,000 hits a day, and with a staff of 10+ people working hard for the Community, you can't go wrong here.
- IceWM The aim of IceWM is to have good 'Feel' and decent 'Look'. It is a window manager optimized for speed, size, usability and consistency. Additional feature is a configurable look (themes) and some integration with desktop environments like GNOME and KDE.
- 3Dwm A three-dimensional window manager.
- Sapphire Window Manager Sapphire is a window manager for X11. It is small and fast while providing enough features to allow a person to accomplish a variety of tasks with a minimal amount of complexity. Sapphire also features a small code base written entirely in C++, root menus, and window decorations.
- Sawmill: an extensible window manager Uses EMACS Lisp-like scripting language, all window decorations configurable, all user-interface policy controlled via Lisp language. Not a layer atop twm, but an all-new architecture. Aim: manage windows in most flexible and attractive way possible, so it does not implement anything that can be done via separate applications.
- wm2 Really minimal window manager
- The Official AfterStep Site NeXTStep-like windowmanager
- Plactech Programming & Sourcecode and help on C++
- amiwm X window manager that tries to look and feel like Amiga Workbench.
- aewm A minimalistic X11 window manager.
- Oroborus Home Page Oroborus is a small, themeable, GNOME comliant window manager for X.
- PWM Lightweight window manager for X11 that lets multiple client windows attach to the same frame.
- lwm - Lightweight Window Manager lwm 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: if you want all that, then other programs can provide it. There's no configurability either: if you want that, you want a different window manager; one that helps your operating system in its evil conquest of your disc space and its annexation of your physical memory.
- The VTWM 5.4 Home Page If you like a basic window manager that doesn't look like Windows crap, and need to have squeezed titles, but also want a virtual desktop and 3D effects, vTWM is what you want.
| Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web. |
| Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor |