- Enlightenment window manager - http://www.enlightenment.org/
Enlightenment (or "E") is a window manager for X, providing a useful, and good looking graphical shell in which to work.
- amiwm - http://www.lysator.liu.se/~marcus/amiwm.html
X window manager that tries to look and feel like Amiga Workbench.
- wm2 - http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/wm2/
Really minimal window manager
- wmx - http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/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."
- GNUstep.org - http://www.gnustep.org/
Official site of GNUstep: free implementation of NeXTStep/OpenStep specification.
- The Scheme Configurable (Constraints?) Window Manager - http://scwm.sourceforge.net/
A highly configurable X Window manager written and configurable with Guile Scheme. An absolute must for any hardcore Schemer who uses X Window. Now at version 0.99.6.1 with Gnome support, a CORBA interface, a complex constraint system for pseudointelligent window placement and management, extremely flexible decoration configurability, and a GUI configuration interface for non-Scheme hackers, plus an assortment of decoration themes.
- LinuxPlanet Window Managers Page - http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/subjects/432/
Reviews of, and tutorials on, window managers under Linux, for beginners.
- B4Step Window Manager - http://b4step.free.fr/
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.
- Official AfterStep Development site - http://afterstep.sourceforge.net/
Site dedicated to Development of the AfterStep Window Manager. Includes HTMLized sources, daily activity log, and TODOs.
- Sapphire Window Manager - http://sapphire.sourceforge.net/
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.
- aewm - http://www.red-bean.com/~decklin/aewm/
A minimalistic X11 window manager.
- Small Window Manager - http://www.small-window-manager.de/
Minimal window manager intended for use with small screen sizes.
- Blackbox - http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/
Light window manager, without all those annoying library dependencies.
- mlvwm - http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~y-miyata/mlvwm.html
Macintosh Like Virtual Window Manager.
- Sawfish - http://sawmill.sourceforge.net/
An extensible window manager using a Lisp-based scripting language. All window decorations are configurable and all user-interface policy is controlled through the extension language. This is no layer on top of twm, but a wholly new architecture.
- Ion - http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/
Text-editorish, keyboard friendly window manager.
- PWM - http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/pwm/
Lightweight window manager for X11 that lets multiple client windows attach to the same frame.
- FluxBox - http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/
A fast compact window manager based on the Blackbox, but offering more features.
- Window Managers for X - http://xwinman.org/
Guide to window managers for the X Window System. Descriptions, screenshots and configuration files for all popular window managers, along with related resources, including a news and discussion area.
- WindowLab - http://www.nickgravgaard.com/windowlab/
A small and simple window manager of novel design.
- AfterStep Applets - http://www.tigr.net/afterstep/
Home of the distribution of applications for the AfterStep window manager.
- pekwm - http://pekwm.org/
A good looking but lean windowmanager with support for dockapps, tabbed windows, automatic window manipulation, dynamic menus, key sequences.
- Oroborus - http://www.oroborus.org/
A very minimalistic, but still fully configurable windowmanager.
- VTWM - http://www.kolumbus.fi/jtp/personal/vtwm/
A virtual window manager for the X Window System. It is based on twm, and can be used just like twm. It provides multiple virtual screens, a 3D look, and lots of neat features.
- Evilwm - http://evilwm.sourceforge.net/
A minimalist Window Manager for the X Window System.
- Ratpoison Window Manager - http://ratpoison.sourceforge.net/
A simple Window Manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations.
- The Stump Window Manager - http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/
A tiling, keyboard driven X11 Window Manager written entirely in Common Lisp.
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