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Sawfish

Sawfish is an extensible window manager using a Lisp-based scripting language. Created by http://sawfish.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Free Open Source
Linux

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.

FEATURES:

Powerful key-binding: Virtually every function provided by Sawfish can be bound to keys (or mouse buttons).
Event hooking: For many events (moving windows etc.) you can customize the way Sawfish will respond.
Window matching: When windows are created you can match them to a set of rules and automatically perform actions on them.
Flexible theming: Sawfish allows for very different themes to be created and a variety of third-party themes are readily available. ... More Info »

Link to official Sawfish site

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Features

Desktop Environment Scriptable Add a feature

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window-manager desktop-environments

Sawfish was added by shouso in Sep 2011 and the latest update was made in Apr 2016. The list of alternatives was updated Jul 2019. It's possible to update the information on Sawfish or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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