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Enlightenment (or "E") is a window manager for X, providing a useful, and good looking graphical shell in which to work.
http://www.enlightenment.org/
NeXTStep-like windowmanager
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AfterStep Welcome to the Official AfterStep website Step is a window manager for the Unix X Window System. Originally based on the look and feel of the NeXTStep interface, it provides end users with a consistent, clean, and elegant desktop. The goal of AfterStep development is to...X window manager that tries to look and feel like Amiga Workbench.
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amiwm X window manager that tries to make your display look and feel like an Amiga Workbench screen. It is fully functional and can do all the usual window manager stuff, like moving and resizing windows. The purpose of amiwm is...Really minimal window manager
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wm2 The briefest contemplation of the modern window manager makes five points immediately obvious: 1. Icons are crap. No existing window manager manages them at all well. 2. Configurability is crap. It takes up so much time and can never truly...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."
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wmx This adds multihead support due to Sven Oliver `SvOlli Moll, shaped window support and window grouping due to Henri, some behavioural improvements and a few bug fixes. You will also find development releases, old releases, and links to other wmx...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.
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Scwm Scheme Constraints Window Manager Systems conference is available! Wednesday, 1-Dec-1999: Paper about Scwm submitted to Usenix 2000 Technical conference is available! Monday, 22-Nov-1999: AAAI paper on Scwm was accepted! Tuesday, 26-Oct-1999: Scwm-0.99.5.1 is released! Sunday, 24-Oct-1999: Scwm-0.99.5 is released! Thursday, 7-Oct-1999: Paper about Scwm...Reviews of, and tutorials on, window managers under Linux, for beginners.
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LinuxPlanet Subjects Proffitt tried to spend a few days mouse-free and found out that adopting a keyboard-centric lifestyle on the Big Two desktops isn't terribly easy. Read what he learned in the latest edition of the StartX files, kickoff to a new...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.
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B4Step version 2.3 ...How to create a mac-like desktop in linux.
http://dimensional.com/~ds55/
Site dedicated to Development of the AfterStep Window Manager. Includes HTMLized sources, daily activity log, and TODOs.
http://afterstep.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.
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Sapphire All aewm development discussions are held on irc.freenode.net in the #sandbox channel. If you want to read about what is going on visit frankhale.org....A minimalistic X11 window manager.
http://www.red-bean.com/~decklin/aewm/
Derived from wm2. Source code and binaries available.
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flwm Flwm is my attempt to combine the best ideas I have seen in several window managers. The primary influence and code base is from wm2 by Chris Cannam. Primary features are: Nifty sideways titlebars. No icons. You deiconize by picking...Minimal window manager that uses pie menus.
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Listing piewm Listing piewm Parent directory Last modified Size File 1998-06-03 16:36:54 1059 bytes README 1998-01-02 05:07:05 1055 bytes index.html~ 1998-01-02 04:54:03 1024 bytes piewm-1.00/ 1998-01-02 05:38:12 201768 bytes piewm-1.01.tar.gz 1998-06-03 16:36:46 207006 bytes piewm-1.02.tar.gz 1998-06-13 02:43:49 300590 bytes piewm-1.03.tar.gz 1998-01-06 15:22:01...Minimal window manager intended for use with small screen sizes.
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SWM M a small window manager description download screenshots special hints description sWM was written for small computer system with very little amount of memory and small screen sizes. It was written to speed up working with laptops or even PDA's....Light window manager, without all those annoying library dependencies.
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Blackbox Wiki Blackbox Blackbox window manager and the place to be for all things Blackbox. Please follow the links in the main menu or the ones below to find what you need. If you're having trouble, please read the navigation tips. Latest release:...Macintosh Like Virtual Window Manager.
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Macintosh Like Virtual Window Manager (MLVWM) I am now preparing to release Macintosh like virtual window manager (MLVWM This products is an window manager on X11R6. This window manager is developed under FreeBSD 2.2 with XFree86 3.2 on Libretto 50. This window manager needs XPM library....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.
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sawfish: an extensible window manager Sawfish is 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. Despite...Text-editorish, keyboard friendly window manager.
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Ion Ion search for a graphical usable interface Ion is a tiling tabbed window manager designed with keyboard users in mind. Introduction Manifesto, Features, Screenshots Download Darcs repository, Ion2 scripts, Ion3 scripts Other resources Documentation, FAQ, Mailing list, IRC, Links Manifesto...Lightweight window manager for X11 that lets multiple client windows attach to the same frame.
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PWM The first tabbed window manager About the program There are two essentially different versions of PWM: the original very lightweight window manager, and the newer Ion-based PWM2. PWM was the first window manager to implement tabbed frames or the back...A window manager qvwm provides a strong solution for a Windows 95/98 like environment on X Window System.
http://www.qvwm.org/index-en.html
A fast compact window manager based on the Blackbox, but offering more features.
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.:F L U X B O X Welcome to fluxbox Fluxbox is yet another windowmanager for X. It's based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. Fluxbox looks like blackbox and handles styles, colors, window placement and similar thing exactly like blackbox (100% theme/style compability So what's the difference between fluxbox and...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.
http://xwinman.org/
A small and simple window manager of novel design.
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WindowLab: rethinking the window manager Rethinking the window manager WindowLab Copyright 2001-2005 Nick Gravgaard thank you for creating such a wonderful WM as WindowLab. It's so extremely clean and simple and fast and easy, just what I was looking for I must say, I'm very...Home of the distribution of applications for the AfterStep window manager.
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Tigr.net: AfterStep Applets Distribution Step applets distribution home site. You will find here: some news and articles below on this page; the applet download directory contains all of the applets for all the versions I could get my hands on; you can look through...A good looking but lean windowmanager with support for dockapps, tabbed windows, automatic window manipulation, dynamic menus, key sequences.
http://pekwm.org/
A very minimalistic, but still fully configurable windowmanager.
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The Oroborus Project A minimalistic window manager MainMailing ListsBugsDownloadScreenshotsLinksImprintDisclaimer Info about Oroborus Oroborus basically is a really minimalistic window manager, which is about 75kb small on a PowerPC machine and about 63kb on an x86 machine. Minimalistic means that the Oroborus window manager...Based on olwm. Allows large virtual desktops.
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xwinman.org Moved to xwinman.org...GWM is an X window manager you can program using LISP.
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GWM Manual: Front Page L not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission. GROUPE BULL makes no representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided as is without express...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.
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VTWM Virtual TWM A virtual window manager for X VTWM is 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...A minimalist Window Manager for the X Window System.
http://evilwm.sourceforge.net/
A simple Window Manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations.
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ratpoison: Say good-bye to the rodent ratpoison: Say good-bye to the rodent Ratpoison has moved! ratpoison has moved to http www.nongnu.org/ratpoison...A tiling, keyboard driven X11 Window Manager written entirely in Common Lisp.
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The Stump Window Manager Manager written entirely in Common Lisp. If you're tired of flipping through themes like channel-surfing, and going from one perfect-except-for-just-one-thing window manager to another even-more-broken-in-some-other-way then perhaps Stumpwm can help. Stumpwm attempts to be customizable yet visually minimal. There are...