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flwm

The Fast Light Window Manager is a small stacking FLTK-based window manager written in C++ and available for redistribution under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence.

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flwm is a very small and fast X window manager.
Features of flwm include:
• Really small and fast code (~40 kB package, ~110 kB installed).
• Occupies as little screen space as possible.
- The border and titles are as thin as one could possibly make them, while still allowing resizing edges.
- Sideways titlebars allow 100% vertical usage of screen.
- Snap-to-edge snaps the inside as well as outside of the borders to the screen edge.
- Maximum width removes the 3D resize borders off the left and right of the window, so only waste is the flat titlebar area at left.
- Windows with no label do not have a titlebar either, just resize edges.
- Programs can resize window to fullscreen and get what they want (the window filling the screen) with no unpredictable positioning and without raising the window.
• Independent maximize buttons for width & height.
• The "taskbar" (or iconbox), "start menu", Alt+Tab window switching, multiple desktop switching, "panel", and "start menu" are all merged into a singe pop-up menu that takes zero space when not being used. Same popup menu can be brought up by clicking on desktop, right-clicking on window border, or Alt+Tab.
• Designed to be point-to-type. If a window grabs the focus the mouse moves to it so this is never inconsistent. This really works, try it!
• Designed to work with smaller, overlapping windows so that programs can finally take advantage of multiple windows, rather than being forced to make a big single "mdi" window. Primarily this means windows do not click to top if you click inside them. In addition Flwm obeys any attempt by the program to resize and/or move a window.
• Understands Motif, KDE, and Gnome window manager hints, and works with SGI programs that assume 4DWM.
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fltk window-manager

flwm was added by burnx50 in Mar 2020 and the latest update was made in Apr 2020. The list of alternatives was updated Mar 2020. It's possible to update the information on flwm or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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