WM

Window Managers

• WP: Window_manager
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Window_Manager

• http://xwinman.org/basics.php

• WP: Stacking_window_manager
• WP: Tiling_window_manager
• WP: Re-parenting_window_manager
• WP: Compositing_window_manager

• http://wiki.debian.org/WindowManager
• http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Window_manager

• Kevin Boone - Underneath the Linux desktop: The window manager

• Window Managers for X
• The Window Manager Report
• https://www.gilesorr.com/wm/table.html

• LUV: Window Managers
• http://www.slant.co/topics/390/~window-managers-for-linux
• WP: Comparison_of_X_window_managers
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Comparison_of_Tiling_Window_Managers
• http://sawfish.wikia.com/wiki/Comparison_of_extensible_window_managers

• http://www.gilesorr.com/wm/
• http://l3net.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/a-memory-comparison-of-light-linux-desktops-part-2/
• 30 Window Managers in 30 days [1]

• Box-Look.org - Stuff for your Windowmanager

• How X Window Managers Work, And How To Write One (Part I) - [2]

xwm

• https://web.archive.org/web/20020609220837/http://www.xwinman.org/archive/xwm/

• http://tech-insider.org/unix/research/acrobat/860201-a.pdf - man

xnwm

• http://www.mit.edu/afs.new/athena/system/x10r4/doc/mann/xnwm.n

uwm

1985

• WP: Ultrix_Window_Manager

developed by the Digital Equipment Corporation for their Ultrix operating system. It was released in 1985. Shortly thereafter, it became included as part of the base X Window System distribution, beginning with X10R3. Initially, it was distributed alongside two other window managers (xwm and xnwm).

In 1986, the X Window System switched to version 11 of the protocol. Only uwm was ported, so it became the only window manager for X Window System until X11R4 release, where it was replaced by twm. uwm has never been updated since.

twm

1987

• WP: Twm
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Twm
• http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/3000/2/

The name originally stood for Tom's Window Manager, but the software was renamed Tab Window Manager by the X Consortium when they adopted it in 1989 (X11R4).

twm is a re-parenting window manager that provides title bars, shaped windows and icon management. It is highly configurable and extensible. twm was a breakthrough achievement in its time, but it has been largely superseded by other window managers which, unlike twm, use a widget toolkit rather than writing directly against Xlib.

Various other window managers—such as vtwm, tvtwm, CTWM, and FVWM—were built on twm's source code.

awm

1988

• WP: Ardent_Window_Manager

descended from uwm.

olvm / olvwm

1989 / 1996?

OPEN LOOK Window Manager was the default stacking window manager for OpenWindows, the original desktop environment included with SunOS and Solaris. Its unique characteristic is its implementation of the OPEN LOOK look and feel.

Scott Oaks developed a variant of olwm, called olvwm (the OPEN LOOK Virtual Window Manager), which implements a virtual root window with dimensions greater than those of the video display.

• WP: Olwm
  • http://xwinman.org/olvwm.php

• YouTube: OpenWindows / OPEN LOOK / olwm

swm

1989

Developed by Tom LaStrange at Solbourne Computer (computer workstations and servers based on the SPARC microprocessor architecture, largely compatible with Sun Microsystems' Sun-4 systems) in 1990. The most important innovation of swm was the introduction of the virtual desktop. It also introduced a primitive form of session management (restoring programs in use at the time of shutdown) to X.

• WP: Swm

Vtwm

1990

• http://www.vtwm.org/
  • WP: VTWM

tvtwm

1991

• WP: Tvtwm

Derived from twm to which it adds the virtual desktop feature from swm. All of these window managers were originally written by Tom LaStrange.

Unlike most more recent virtual window managers, tvtwm models the root window as a single large space, with the physical desktop being a viewport onto that virtual root window. The user can scroll the viewport around the virtual desktop either by pressing certain keys or by clicking into a scaled down representation of the virtual desktop, the so-called panner.

• https://sourceforge.net/projects/tvtwm7/
• https://github.com/oss/Solaris-Spec-Files/blob/master/tvtwm.spec

CTWM

1992

• https://www.ctwm.org/

Claude Lecommandeur from the source code for twm, which, inspired by HP's vuewm, he extended to allow for virtual desktops ("workspaces" in CTWM's terminology.)

• WP: CTWM

• https://code.launchpad.net/~ctwm/ctwm/trunk

PieWM

1992

• http://www.crynwr.com/piewm/index.html~

tvtwm fork, Has pie menus (circle around the mouse).

mwm

1992

Motif Window Manager

• http://web.archive.org/web/20080705101040/http://www.opengroup.org/motif/
  • WP: Motif_Window_Manager

• WP: Motif_Window_Manager
• http://web.archive.org/web/20171031232801/http://www.xwinman.org:80/mwm.php

FVWM

1993

• http://fvwm.org
  • http://fvwmwiki.xteddy.org
  • http://fvwm-themes.sourceforge.net

Derived from twm, has lots of forks: Afterstep, Xfce, Enlightenment, WindowMaker, Metisse, Bowman, AmiWM, FVWM-XPM (pre-Enlightenment), NWM, MVLWM, SCWM

• WP: FVWM

• https://github.com/mintsuki/fvwm95 - a fork of fvwm95 meant to be compilable on and play nice with newer Unix-like operating systems.It is based off the code from the source package in Debian Sarge, slightly modified so that it compiles without errors on modern OSes, and with a more sane configuration to adapt to modern day needs.
  • WP: FVWM95 - based on the popular FVWM 2 window manager. It is similar to the original FVWM, but is designed to closely resemble the look of Windows 95.

• http://fvwm-crystal.sourceforge.net

• https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm3 - the successor to fvwm2

9wm

1994

• WP: 9wm

ADAM

1995

• https://web.archive.org/web/19990218061527/http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/umtf/adam.html
• http://consult.cern.ch/writeup/adam/

AmiWM

1996?

• http://www.lysator.liu.se/~marcus/amiwm.html - FVWM descendant

wm2 / wmx

1996 / 1998

• http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/wm2
  • https://github.com/cannam/wm2 - a window manager for X. It provides an unusual style of window decoration and as little functionality as comfortable. wm2 is not configurable, except by editing the source and recompiling the code, and is really intended for people who don't particularly want their window manager to be too friendly.

• http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/wmx

Window Maker

1997

• http://windowmaker.org/
  • WP: Window_Maker

• http://dockapps.windowmaker.org/

• Largo's Window Maker Page

• http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/07/get-to-know-linux-window-maker/

• Workspace - a fork of Window Maker.

Blackbox

1997

• http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/
  • WP: Blackbox

IceWM

1997

• http://www.icewm.org [3]
  • WP: IceWM
  • https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IceWM

• https://github.com/ice-wm/icewm

• https://github.com/bbidulock/icewm

MLVWM

1997

• WP: Macintosh-Like_Virtual_Window_Manager - FVWM descendant

Xfwm

Xfwm - used in Xfce, intially based on fvwm2, itself derived from twm, redesigned to minimize memory consumption, provide a 3-D look to window frames, and provide a simple virtual desktop.

4Dwm

1998?

• WP: 4Dwm

derived from mwm. uses the Motif widget toolkit, normally used on Silicon Graphics workstations running IRIX.

aewm

1998

• http://www.red-bean.com/decklin/aewm/

AfterStep

1999

• http://www.afterstep.org/ - FVWM descendant
  • http://wiki.afterstep.org/
  • WP: AfterStep

Scwm

1999

• http://scwm.sourceforge.net/ - FVWM descendant

plwm

1999

• http://plwm.sourceforge.net/
  • http://plwm.sourceforge.net/doc/html/

PWM

2000

Tiling

• WP: PWM_(window_manager)

Succeeded by Ion

Ion

2000

Tiling

• WP: Ion_(window_manager)

Successor to PWM, development dead

Fork: Notion

Sawfish

2000

• Sawfish is an extensible window manager using a Lisp-based scripting language. Its policy is very minimal compared to most window managers. Its aim is simply to manage windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible. All high-level WM functions are implemented in Lisp for future extensibility or redefinition. what i wanted when using litestep

larswm

2000

• http://freecode.com/projects/larswm
  • WP: Larswm

ratpoison

2000

• http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/
  • WP: Ratpoison
  • https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ratpoison

PLWM

2000

• http://plwm.sourceforge.net/
  • WP: PLWM

Fluxbox

2001

• http://fluxbox.org/ - blackbox fork
  • WP: Fluxbox

• http://bbs.archbang.org/viewtopic.php?id=2097

• http://fluxbox-wiki.org/

WindowLab

2001

Fork of aewm. Stacking.

• http://nickgravgaard.com/windowlab/
  • WP: WindowLab

evilwm

2001

Stacking, minimal/small.

• http://www.6809.org.uk/evilwm/

• https://www.maketecheasier.com/evilwm-a-devilishly-simple-window-manager-for-linux/

Openbox

2002

• http://openbox.org/
  • WP: Openbox

• An Openbox Guide

Metacity

2002

• WP: Metacity - gnome 2

miwm

2002

• http://miwm.sourceforge.net/

Hackedbox

2002

• http://freecode.com/projects/hackedbox

Oroborus

2002

• http://www.oroborus.org/

NovaWM

2002

• http://novawm.sourceforge.net/

Stumpwm

2003

• http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/community.html
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Stumpwm

cwm

2004

Calm Window Manager, stacking. was based on evilwm, rewritten as a 9wn fork, then rewritten

• http://web.archive.org/web/20111118065946/http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=cwm
• WP: Cwm_(window_manager)

wmii

2005

Tiling/stacking, plan9 like interface.

• http://wmii.suckless.org/
  • WP: Wmii

PekWM

2005

Stacking

• https://www.pekwm.org/
  • WP: PekWM

JWM

2005

Stacking, Windows 98 like.

• http://www.joewing.net/projects/jwm/
  • https://github.com/joewing/jwm
  • WP: JWM

whimsy

2005

Python, stackable.

• http://incise.org/whimsy.html
  • https://github.com/mackstann/whimsy

dwm

2006

Tiling, configuration in source header file.

• http://dwm.suckless.org/
  • https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/dwm
  • WP: dwm
  • http://web.archive.org/web/20120120161931/http://lubutu.com/rant/dwm-faq

• https://sourceforge.net/projects/adwm/ - old fork

• https://github.com/bakkeby/dwm-flexipatch - A dwm build with preprocessor directives to decide which patches to include during build time

spectrwm

2006

• spectrwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff. It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any configuration. It was written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be small, compact and fast. It was largely inspired by xmonad and dwm.
  • https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Spectrwm
  • https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm

FLWM

2006?

Stacking, based on the FLTK toolkit

• http://flwm.sourceforge.net/
  • WP: FLWM

Matchbox

2007

• Matchbox - an Open Source base environment for the X Window System running on non-desktop embedded platforms such as handhelds, set-top boxes, kiosks and anything else for which screen space, input mechanisms or system resources are limited.Matchbox consists of a number of interchangeable and optional applications that can be tailored to a specific non desktop platform to enhance usability in a ‘constrained’ environment.
  • WP: Matchbox_(window_manager)

xmonad

2007

• xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell. In a normal WM, you spend half your time aligning and searching for windows. xmonad makes work easier, by automating this. [4]

• documentation
  • man
  • wiki
  • arch wiki: xmonad
• http://xmonad.org/contrib.html

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyNkBLhIpQk&hd=1 - example vid

Config

• XMonad.Doc.Configuring
• template config
  • http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Config_archive
  • http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Config_archive/John_Goerzen's_Configuration
  • http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Config_archive/TTimo_xmonad.hs - 0.10 base config?
• http://www.linuxandlife.com/2011/11/how-to-configure-xmonad-arch-linux.html
  • http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Doc-Extending.html
  • http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Util-CustomKeys.html

cabal --recompile
  after changing ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs

Hotkeys

mod shift enter
  start terminal
mod shift c
  close current window

mod w
  reload xmonad

mod space
  rotate through window layouts
mod shift space
  reset to workspace default
mod tab
  tab through windows
super 2
  switch to workspace 2

• default keybindings
  • http://www.quitsendingmetrash.com/lrn/unix/xmonad.php

Awesome

2007

See Awesome

subtle

2007

• subtle is a manual tiling window manager with a rather uncommon approach of tiling: Instead of relying on predefined layouts, subtle divides the screen into a grid with customizeable slots (called gravities). For better understanding, the default config uses a 3x3 grid and maps each gravity to one key of the numpad. With those keys, windows can be moved directly to the desired gravity - the same can be done with tagging rules in the config. Another unique concept is the strict tagging: Unlike other tiling window managers, subtle doesn't allow weak tagging and always maps windows to virtual desktops (called views) with matching tags, regardless of the current active view.

Echinus

2007

• http://plhk.ru/
  • https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Echinus

Tritium

2007?

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/tritium/

• https://github.com/stew/tritium - a tabbed/tiling window manager. tritium is a tiling/tabbed window manager for the X Window System inspired by the ion3 window manager. It was written completely from scratch in python and shares no actual code with ion3. tritium is implemented in python using the plwm ("pointless window manager") library

SithWM

2007

• http://sithwm.darkside.no/

wmfs

2008

• http://wmfs.info/ - DEAD SITE
  • https://github.com/xorg62/wmfs

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/WMFS

CLFSWM

2008

• http://common-lisp.net/project/clfswm/

• https://github.com/dochang/clfswm

• http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=19404

Lucca WM

2008?

• http://madewokherd.nfshost.com/luccawm/

i3

See i3

TinyWM

• tinywm - a tiny window manager that I created as an exercise in minimalism. It is also maybe helpful in learning some of the very basics of creating a window manager. It is only around 50 lines of C. There is also a Python version using python-xlib. It lets you do four basic things: Move windows interactively with Alt+Button1 drag (left mouse button), Resize windows interactively with Alt+Button3 drag (right mouse button), Raise windows with Alt+F1 (not high on usability I know, but I needed a keybinding in there somewhere), Focus windows with the mouse pointer (X does this on its own) [5]
  • https://github.com/mackstann/tinywm

Notion

2010

Tiling, tabbed

• http://notion.sourceforge.net/
  • https://github.com/raboof/notion

• https://raboof.github.io/notion/tour/

• http://notion.sourceforge.net/notionkeys.html

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Notion

Fork of Ion

Musca

2009

• http://aerosuidae.net/musca.html - dead

• https://github.com/gccyugi/musca

Bluetile

2010

• Bluetile is a tiling window manager for Linux, designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment. It provides both a traditional, stacking layout mode as well as tiling layouts where windows are arranged to use the entire screen without overlapping. Bluetile tries to make the tiling paradigm easily accessible to users coming from traditional window managers by drawing on known conventions and providing both mouse and keyboard access for all features. based on Xmonad

mcwm

2010

• http://hack.org/mc/hacks/mcwm - minimalist, floating window manager written using XCB, the X protocol C binding.The only window decoration is a thin border. All functions can be done with the keyboard, but moving, resizing, raising and lowering can also be done with the mouse.If you don't like the default key bindings, border width, et cetera, look in the config.h file, change and recompile.
  • https://github.com/mchackorg/mcwm
  • https://github.com/bbidulock/mcwm

catwm

2010

• https://github.com/pyknite/catwm

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Catwm

euclid-wm

2010

• http://euclid-wm.sourceforge.net/index.php

wind

2010

• http://windwm.sourceforge.net/

Wind is a window manager for the X Window System. It supports virtual desktops, optional Xft font rendering, and is pretty standards compliant. It provides overlapping window management with click-to-type focus. Unlike most window managers, Wind does not have the concept of minimized or hidden windows. Instead of hiding and unhiding windows, the virtual desktops abstraction makes it easy to group similar tasks and switch between these groups instantly using convenient key bindings. Standards compliancy is a prominent goal of the project, and Wind supports almost all mandatory parts of the ICCCM and the Extended Window Manager Hints specifications. Full compliancy is expected in the next major release.

marco

2011

Fork of metacity, used by MATE.

• https://github.com/mate-desktop/marco

i5

2011

Tiling, fork of i3 with touchscreen features.

• http://i5-wm.github.io/

herbstluftwm

2011

• herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib. Its main features can be described with: the layout is based on splitting frames into subframes which can be split again or can be filled with windows (similar to i3/ musca). tags (or workspaces or virtual desktops or …) can be added/removed at runtime. Each tag contains an own layout. exactly one tag is viewed on each monitor. The tags are monitor independent (similar to xmonad). it is configured at runtime via ipc calls from herbstclient. So the configuration file is just a script which is run on startup. (similar to wmii/ musca)

• http://herbstluftwm.org/tutorial.html

• http://herbstluftwm.org/herbstluftwm.html
• http://herbstluftwm.org/herbstclient.html

• YouTube: 28c3 LT Day 4: herbstluftwm

monsterwm

2011

• monsterwm is a minimal, lightweight, tiny but monstrous dynamic tiling window manager. It will try to stay as small as possible. Currently under 700 lines with the config file included. It provides a set of four different layout modes (vertical stack, bottom stack, grid and monocle/fullscreen) by default, and has floating mode support. Each virtual desktop has its own properties, unaffected by other desktops' settings. Finally monsterwm supports multiple monitors setups.
  • https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Monsterwm

tilenol

2011

• https://github.com/tailhook/tilenol

nwm

2011

• nwm - A dynamic window manager for X11 written with Node.js

Mer

2011

• http://merproject.org/ - Mer is an open, mobile-optimised, core distribution aimed at device manufacturers; powered by Qt/QML and HTML5 - openly developed, inclusive, and meritocratically governed. MeeGo based.
• https://sailfishos.org/wiki/Main_Page

• http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/10q18b/gala_elementarys_new_super_smooth_window_manager/

dminiwm / snapwm

2011

Minimal and lightweight dynamic tiling window manager. Fork of catwm.

• https://github.com/moetunes/dminiwm
  • https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=100215&p=1

• https://github.com/moetunes/Nextwm - snapwm

wingo

2011

Floating and tiling, per monitor desktops. Written in Go.

• https://github.com/BurntSushi/wingo

no-wm

2011

• https://github.com/patrickhaller/no-wm

Foo-Wm

• http://www.userbound.com/interfaces/Foo-Wm/

Aura

• http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/aura-desktop-window-manager

TTWM / Alopex

2012

• https://github.com/TrilbyWhite/alopex
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Alopex
• TTWM is a minimal tiling window manager combining concepts or elements from TinyWM, DWM, and i3wm. Inspiration has also been drawn from other great tilers like MonserWM. TinyTiler is currently under 650 lines of code. In contrast to other tilers, TinyTiler does not have modes nor does have window rules. TinyTiler has only two layouts: right stack and bottom stack. These choices were by design. TinyTiler instead provides two screen sections, the master and the stack. In TinyTiler only one stack window is visibile at a time, the others have tabs in the statusbar.

Qtile

2012

• Qtile is a full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written in Python.
  • https://github.com/nilsgey/qtile
  • https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Qtile

Goomwwm

2012

• http://aerosuidae.net/goomwwm/ Goomwwm: Get out of my way, Window Manager!

• http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4214800

bspwm

2012

• https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm bspwm is a tiling window manager where each window is represented as the leaf of a binary tree. It is controlled and configured via bspc. bspwm have only two sources of informations: the X events it receives and the messages it reads on a dedicated socket. Its configuration file is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bspwm/autostart. Keyboard and pointer bindings are defined through sxhkd. Example configuration files can be found in the examples directory.
  • https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bspwm
  • https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=149444&p=1

Very nice and atomic.

bspc set focused_border_color '#ff0000'
bspc set border_width '3px'
bspc set window_gap 0
bspc set focus_follows_pointer true

• https://github.com/windelicato/dotfiles/wiki/bspwm-for-dummies
• http://yuri-rage.github.io/geekery/2015/01/26/bleeding-edge-bspwm/
• http://blog.east5th.co/2014/12/15/joining-the-tiling-wm-master-race/

• https://github.com/desyncr/bspwmrc/
• http://thedarnedestthing.com/bspwm
• http://thedarnedestthing.com/bspwm%20gym
• http://thedarnedestthing.com/bspwm%20framed

• https://github.com/Chrysostomus/bspwm-scripts - Various scripts for controlling bspwm. Copied and edited from various repos from github.

• YouTube: Full Demo: BSPWM on Debian 10 'Buster' - and playlist

• bspwm_workspces.sh

• https://github.com/neeasade/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/bin/laptop_monitor_sync

• https://github.com/DelusionalLogic/dotfiles/blob/bspwm/localbin/.localbin/bspwm_reorder

• Dual monitor setup with BSPWM and Polybar

• https://old.reddit.com/r/bspwm/comments/gfyo83/spawn_new_workspacesdesktops_dynamically

• https://github.com/ntrrgc/right-window - Utility to move the focus between windows following cardinal directions

• https://gitlab.com/jallbrit/desknamer - automatically rename bspwm desktops based on the applications inside

external rules

• bspwm external rules test ($1695296) · Snippets · GitLab
• https://git.sr.ht/~jbauer/dotfiles/tree/6b9b75b16cf401e5137203c2479b0b6f1c0d63ab/.config/bspwm/external_rules
• https://github.com/lvancrayelynghe/dotfiles/blob/master/bspwm/external-rules.sh
• https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm/issues/888
• https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm/issues/263
• https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm/issues/263

Deep Space Window Manager

2012

• http://dss-project.org/
  • https://github.com/dss-project/dswm

Piwm

2013

• Piwm is a very small window manager written in Bash. Following are the 5 task it performs : 1) Ctrl + t : Opens xterm, 2) Ctrl + f : Makes current window full screen, 3) Alt + Mouseleft : Moves the window, 4) Alt + Mouseright : Rescales the window, 5) Ctrl + F1 : Refocus the window

Guile-WM

2013

• http://www.markwitmer.com/guile-xcb/guile-wm.html
  • https://github.com/mwitmer/guile-wm

2bwm

• https://github.com/venam/2bwm - A fast floating WM written over the XCB library and derived from mcwm.

swc

2013

• https://github.com/michaelforney/swc - a small Wayland compositor implemented as a library.It has been designed primary with tiling window managers in mind. Additionally, notable features include:Easy to follow code baseXWayland supportCan place borders around windows

velox

2014

• https://github.com/michaelforney/velox - a simple window manager based on swc. It is inspired by dwm and xmonad. velox uses tag-based window management similar to dwm. This allows you to construct your workspace by selecting a set of tags to work with. However, in contrast with dwm, windows do not have any screen associated with them; they are shown on whichever screen has their tag selected, allowing you to easily move windows between screens by selecting their tag on a different screen. This is similar to the multi-monitor workspace switching in xmonad.To ensure that we never attempt to show a window in two places at once, we have to impose several constraints. First, each window must have exactly one tag. In practice, I've found that I rarely intentionally mark a window with more than one tag anyway. Second, when you select a tag that is currently display on a different screen, the tag is first deselected from that screen.

FrankenWM

2014

dynamic tiling WM featuring the v-stack, b-stack, grid, fibonacci, dualstack, equal and monocle layouts out of the box. If you want to, you can add gaps between the windows as well. monsterwm-xcb fork, thus coming from monsterwm, thus coming from dminiwm, thus coming from catwm.

• https://github.com/sulami/FrankenWM
  • https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=189060

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/FrankenWM

howm

2014

• https://github.com/HarveyHunt/howm [6]
  • http://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/2exe2r/howm_my_vimlike_window_manager_that_is_ready_to/

wtftw

2014

written in rust

• https://github.com/Kintaro/wtftw [7]
  • https://github.com/Kintaro/wtftw-core

adwm

2014

• https://github.com/bbidulock/adwm - originally a fork of Echinus which in turn was a fork of dwm, and borrows concepts from velox, awesome and spectrwm. What it includes is a full rewrite with significant updates and additions resulting in full EWMH (NetwM), WMH (WinWM), MWMH (CDE/Motif), ICCCM 2.0 compliance and support.

See also the XDE apps.

eggwm

2014

• https://github.com/xiangzhai/eggwm

swm

2014

• https://github.com/dcat/swm

Moksha

• https://github.com/JeffHoogland/moksha - an advanced window manager for X11 based on Enlightenment DR17.

exwm

2015

• https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm - emacs based [8]

• http://emacsist.com/10473

• https://github.com/johanwiden/exwm-setup/blob/master/README.org - A complete configuration for the EXWM X11 window manager

katriawm

2015

non-reparenting, tiling window manager with window decorations. It’s a learning project started in December 2015.

• https://www.uninformativ.de/projects/katriawm/
  • https://github.com/vain/katriawm

• https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2016-01-05/0/POSTING-en.html

Lunchbox Window Manager

2015

• https://github.com/alysander/lunchboxwm - A tiling window manager for X11

aphelia

• https://github.com/vardy/aphelia - A light, single-file, minimalist window manager for X11. [9]

Petronia

2016

• https://github.com/groboclown/petronia - A Python Tiling Window Manager

LeftWM

• LeftWM - a tiling window manager written in rust for stability and performance. The core of left is designed to do one thing and one thing well. Be a window manager. Because you probably want more than just a black screen LeftWM is built around the concept of theming. With themes you can choose between different bar / compositor / background / colors, whatever makes you happy. LeftWM has been built from the very beginning to support multiple screens and has been built around ultrawide monitors. You will see this with the default key bindings.
  • https://github.com/leftwm/leftwm

chamferwm

2018

• https://github.com/jaelpark/chamferwm - A tiling window manager with Vulkan based compositor.

dovetail

• https://github.com/jcrd/dovetail -dovetail is an opinionated window manager based on awesome.

Twindy

• Twindy - a window manager for linux (and possibly any system running an X server?) inspired byTracktion, the multitrack audio editor/sequencer for Windows and OS X. Twindy tries to apply Tracktion's workflow, where everything is on screen at once, to a window manager. As such, there are two panels, a main panel where new windows/programs open by default and may be selected using tabs, and a lower panel, which can only hold one window/program at a time.The idea is that you'll do your main work in the top panel, and use the bottom panel for a terminal, or a file manager you'd want to keep open.

berry

• https://github.com/JLErvin/berry - A healthy, bite-sized window manager written over the XLib Library

Xlambda

• https://github.com/kori/Xlambda
  • YouTube: Demo of Xlambda V1 - [10]

karuiwm

• https://gitlab.com/ayekat/karuiwm - a lightweight, dynamically tiling window manager for X.It is based on dwm and inspired by xmonad.

Wmderland

• https://github.com/aesophor/Wmderland - X11 i3-like tiling window manager using space partitioning tree
  • Wmderland: my own tiling window manager : unixporn

sowm

• https://github.com/dylanaraps/sowm - An itsy bitsy floating window manager with roots in catwm.

SWM

• SWM -- Simple Window Manager - F8-DP-2020-Bina-Jan-thesis.pdf -

nimdow

• https://github.com/avahe-kellenberger/nimdow - written in Nim. NOTE: This is a WIP and currently only usable on single monitor setups. I am using this project to learn Nim, x11, and to replace my build of dwm (written in C).

LeftWM

• LeftWM - a tiling window manager written in rust for stability and performance. The core of left is designed to do one thing and one thing well. Be a window manager. Because you probably want more than just a black screen LeftWM is built around the concept of theming. With themes you can choose between different bar / compositor / background / colors, whatever makes you happy.LeftWM has been built from the very beginning to support multiple screens and has been built around ultrawide monitors. You will see this with the default key bindings.
  • https://github.com/leftwm/leftwm

page

• https://github.com/gschwind/page - mouse friendly tiling window manager for linux. page organizes windows in tiles and groups them in tabs. It allow to reconfigure dynamically tile and tabs with your mouse pointer. page can be used with desktop environment that allow to replace the window manager, for instance MATE or XFCE. page is under development and implement ICCCM and EWMH. It is implemented in C++11 and depend on Xlib, xcb, glib, pango and cairo. The code is distributed under GPLv3.

instantWM

• https://github.com/instantOS/instantWM - Window manager for instantOS

dylwm?

• https://github.com/dylanaraps/wm - status: messy and mostly working

InfiniteGlass

• InfiniteGlass - This is a minimalistic compositing window manager for X with infinite desktop, infinite zoom and infinite virtual window pixel resolution.
  • https://github.com/redhog/InfiniteGlass

xwm

• https://github.com/mcpcpc/xwm [11]

tofu

• https://github.com/periish/tofu - a shell based window manager for x11fs. It uses x11fs to parse events and control windows. tofu is built to be easily extensible, and scriptable. It is a simple shell script itself. tofc is a program that can be used in tandem with tofu. It controls windows. tofu on it's own does not enforce any particular behaviour for windows, however some example workflows exist in the contrib directory. tofu does not handle keybinds - sxhkd or XBindkeys is reccomended.

hfwm

• https://github.com/katef/hfwm - Half Finished Window Manager

shod

• https://github.com/phillbush/shod - tabbed window manager that can tile windows inside floating containers

chamferwm

• https://github.com/jaelpark/chamferwm - A tiling window manager with Vulkan based compositor. Vulkan compositor for external X11 window managers

Other

See also Wayland

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Comparison_of_Tiling_Window_Managers

• https://github.com/jjttjj/wm - a clojure(script) library which provides an immutable datastructure that's useful for implementing a tiling window manager.

• https://github.com/sminez/penrose - A library for writing an X11 tiling window manager