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doWM

doWM is a beautiful floating and tiling window manager for X11 completely written in golang.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source (MIT)

Application type

Platforms

  • X11
  • Linux
  • BSD

Features

Properties

  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Lightweight
  3.  Minimalistic
  4.  Customizable

Features

  1.  No Tracking
  2.  Ad-free
  3.  Works Offline
  4.  No registration required
  5.  Tiling
  6.  Tiling Window Manager
  7.  Compositor
  8.  X server
  9.  Floating windows

doWM News & Activities

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  • June 2026
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  • 2025
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doWM information

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GitHub repository

  •  441 Stars
  •  16 Forks
  •  6 Open Issues
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What is doWM?

doWM is a beautiful floating and tiling window manager for X11 completely written in golang.

Features:

doWM brings you a minimal, fast, and highly customizable tiling and floating window experience.

  • Tiling: doWM provides extensive and powerful tiling support which you are in control of
  • Easy Configuration: doWM is easy to configure with one yaml file that allows you to make keybinds, layouts and tweak general settings
  • Floating: doWM is also perfect for people who prefer floating window managers as it supports floating too
  • Workspaces: doWM provides 10 workspaces for you to use to fill all your needs, increasing your productivity massively
  • Compositor support: doWM works seemlessly with compositors like picom to make your WM experience look even nicer
  • Minimalism and performance: doWM is extremely lightweight and performant WM, so don't worry about your old computer exploding!