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  • i3

    A dynamic tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii, and written in C.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

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  • Openbox

    Openbox is a highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support. The *box visual style is well known for its minimalistic...

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

    No features added Add a feature

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  • Fluxbox

    Fluxbox is a window manager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. It is very light on resources and easy to handle but yet full of features to make an easy...

    Free Open Source Linux BSD C++

    No features added Add a feature

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  • bspwm

    A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning.

    Free Open Source Linux

    No features added Add a feature

  • Bluetile

    Bluetile is a tiling window manager for Linux, designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment. It provides both a traditional, stacking layout mode as well as...

    Free Open Source Linux

    Snap windows Add a feature

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  • Ratpoison

    Ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no rodent dependence. The screen can be split into...

    Free Open Source Linux

    No features added Add a feature

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  • i3-gaps

    i3-gaps is a fork of i3wm, a tiling window manager for X11. It is kept up to date with upstream, adding a few additional features such as gaps between windows.

    Free Open Source Linux

    No features added Add a feature

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  • Phoenix

    Phoenix is a lightweight OS X window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript. You can also easily use languages which compile to JavaScript such as CoffeeScript....

    Free Open Source Mac GitHub

    Lightweight Add a feature

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  • KWin

    KWin is a window manager for the X Window System, and is in the process of becoming a Wayland compositor. It is an integral part, and the default window manager of the...

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

    Extensible window manager Add a feature

  • herbstluftwm

    herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

    No features added Add a feature

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  • wmii

    wmii is a small, dynamic window manager for X11. It is scriptable, has a 9p filesystem interface and supports classic and tiling (acme-like) window management. It aims...

    Free Open Source Linux

    No features added Add a feature

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