awesome

A dynamic window manager for the X Window System developed in the C and Lua programming languages.

Free • Open Source
Window Manager

Linux
BSD

What is awesome?

awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast, extensible and licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license.

It is primarily targeted at power users, developers and any people dealing with every day computing tasks and who want to have fine-grained control on theirs graphical environment.

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awesome with a number of terminals open.

Screenshot by folcraed
Source: https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/issues/1395#issuecomment-272668779

Screenshot by McSinyx
Source: https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/issues/1395#issuecomment-272681398

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LicensingOpen Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.
Written in
Lua
Alternatives45 alternatives listed

Supported Languages

English

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539 Open Issues
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