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  • Ratpoison Window Manager
    A simple Window Manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations.
    http://ratpoison.sourceforge.net/
  • ROX Desktop
    A desktop environment with some features of RISC OS.
    http://rox.sourceforge.net/
  • Sawfish
    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.
    http://sawmill.sourceforge.net/
  • PWM
    Lightweight window manager for X11 that lets multiple client windows attach to the same frame.
    http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/pwm/
  • Pie Menu Window Manager
    Minimal window manager that uses pie menus.
    http://www.crynwr.com/piewm/
  • Openbox
    A standards compliant light-weight extensible window manager.
    http://icculus.org/openbox/
  • Oroborus
    A very minimalistic, but still fully configurable windowmanager.
    http://www.oroborus.org/
  • pekwm
    A good looking but lean windowmanager with support for dockapps, tabbed windows, automatic window manipulation, dynamic menus, key sequences.
    http://pekwm.org/
  • The Scheme Configurable (Constraints?) Window Manager
    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.
    http://scwm.sourceforge.net/
  • Small Window Manager
    Minimal window manager intended for use with small screen sizes.
    http://www.small-window-manager.de/
  • wm2
    Really minimal window manager
    http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/wm2/
  • 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."
    http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/wmx/
  • XD640
    A lightweight graphical desktop environment for X-Window designed for older computers running at 640x480 screen resolution.
    http://www.oksidizer.com/software/xd640.html
  • WindowLab
    A small and simple window manager of novel design.
    http://www.nickgravgaard.com/windowlab/
  • Window Manager Icons Distribution
    a project to provide an efficient configurable icon distribution
    http://wm-icons.sourceforge.net/
  • The Stump Window Manager
    A tiling, keyboard driven X11 Window Manager written entirely in Common Lisp.
    http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/
  • 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.
    http://www.kolumbus.fi/jtp/personal/vtwm/
  • Open Look Virtual Window Manager
    Based on olwm. Allows large virtual desktops.
    http://www.plig.org/xwinman/olvwm.html
  • The Official AfterStep Site
    NeXTStep-like windowmanager
    http://www.afterstep.org/
  • Enlightenment
    A window manager based on Enlightenment Foundation Libraries.
    http://www.enlightenment.org/
  • Evilwm
    A minimalist Window Manager for the X Window System.
    http://evilwm.sourceforge.net/
  • Fast Light Window Manager
    Derived from wm2. Source code and binaries available.
    http://flwm.sourceforge.net/
  • 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.
    http://b4step.free.fr/
  • Blackbox
    Light window manager, without all those annoying library dependencies.
    http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/
  • AfterStep Applets
    Home of the distribution of applications for the AfterStep window manager.
    http://www.tigr.net/afterstep/
  • amiwm
    X window manager that tries to look and feel like Amiga Workbench.
    http://www.lysator.liu.se/~marcus/amiwm.html
  • BadWM
    A minimalistic window manager for the X Window System.
    http://badwm.sourceforge.net/
  • FluxBox
    A fast compact window manager based on the Blackbox, but offering more features.
    http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/
  • Generic Window Manager Manual
    GWM is an X window manager you can program using LISP.
    http://tronche.com/gui/x/gwm/html-manual/
  • mlvwm
    Macintosh Like Virtual Window Manager.
    http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~y-miyata/mlvwm.html
  • The Mlvwm + Kfm Site
    How to create a mac-like desktop in linux.
    http://dimensional.com/~ds55/
  • Official AfterStep Development site
    Site dedicated to Development of the AfterStep Window Manager. Includes HTMLized sources, daily activity log, and TODOs.
    http://afterstep.sourceforge.net/
  • LinuxPlanet Window Managers Page
    Reviews of, and tutorials on, window managers under Linux, for beginners.
    http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/subjects/432/
  • JD4X
    A basic GUI windowing environment developed to support the Java programming language based on top of the X window system.
    http://jdx.sourceforge.net/
  • GNUstep.org
    Official site of GNUstep: free implementation of NeXTStep/OpenStep specification.
    http://www.gnustep.org/
  • Ion
    Text-editorish, keyboard friendly window manager.
    http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/
  • aewm
    A minimalistic X11 window manager.
    http://www.red-bean.com/~decklin/aewm/

 

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