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  • Aewm - the ascetic window manager - A minimalist window manager for X11. What's Related?
  • Bbcong - Blackbox Window Manager Gui Configurator - A comprehensive, all-in-one GUI-based blackbox window manager configurator. Latest stable release is 1.10, 2003-03-11. What's Related?
  • Beryl Project - A combined window manager and composite manager using OpenGL to provide acceleration to the desktop. What's Related?
  • Blackbox - X Window Manager - A fast, lightweight window manager for the X Window System. What's Related?
  • Compiz - A compositing window manager that uses 3D graphics acceleration via OpenGL What's Related? Added 7/10/08
  • Compiz Fusion - Plugins and a configuration system for the Compiz compositing window manager for the X Window System. This site is the result of a merge between the old Compiz community plugin set "Compiz Extras" and the parts of the Beryl project that are independent of the window manager core. What's Related? Added 7/10/08
  • Enlightenment - A lightweight desktop, which can run on older hardware and PDAs. Release DR17 (currently under heavy development) will have more features to augment its configurable and user-friendly interface; runs on older hardware and PDAs. (2008) What's Related?
  • FVWM-Crystal - Transparent Desktop for Your Linux Box - Eye-candy for FVWM. What's Related?
  • Fluxbox Window Manager - An X11 window manager build for speed and flexibility. It's based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. Features include configurable window tabs, iconbar (for minimized/iconified windows), KDE support, and configurable title bar. Latest stable release is 1.0.0, 2007-10-09. What's Related?
  • Fluxspace - A flexible desktop environment around Fluxbox and other lightweight window managers. What's Related?
  • Flwm - A fast, light-weight window manager. Latest version is 1.0.2, 2006-06-30. What's Related?
  • Fresco Home - A windowing system derived from a powerful structured graphics toolkit originally based on InterViews. Formerly the Berlin Project. What's Related?
  • Icewm - The Cool Window Manager - This window manager excels in look and feel while being lightweight, fast, optimized for usability, and customizable. Available in a variety of languages. Latest stable release is 1.2.32, 2007-08-06. What's Related?
  • Ion - An innovative, tiling-tabbed window manager designed primarily to use from the keyboard. Successor to PWM window manager. What's Related?
  • Larswm - Tiling Window Manager - A rewrite of 9wm window manager; adds automatic tiling, virtual desktops and other features. Latest stable release is 7.5.3, 2004-07-15. What's Related?
  • Lesstif Home Page - A free (LGPL) clone of Motif (also known as OSF/Motif). What's Related?
  • Matchbox Window Manager - Window manager for PDAs. What's Related?
  • MenuMaker - 100% Python heuristics-driven menu generator - A heuristics-driven menu generator for a number of lightweight *NIX graphical desktop environments. What's Related?
  • Official AfterStep Web Site - A window manager for the Linux/Unix X window systems. What's Related?
  • Openbox - A standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible window manager. What's Related?
  • Ratpoison - Say good-bye to the rodent - A simple window manager that can be used without a mouse. What's Related?
  • Sawfish - An extensible window manager using a Lisp-based scripting language. All window decorations are configurable, and all user-interface policy is controlled through the extension language. Latest stable release is 1.3.2, 2008-01-20. What's Related?
  • Screen - GNU Project Window Manager - A full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells. What's Related?
  • The Official FVWM Homepage - A powerful ICCCM-compliant multiple virtual desktop window manager for the X Window system. What's Related?
  • The Official FVWM Themes Home Page - Provides a wide range of ready-to-use themes as well as a framework for creating customized themes. What's Related?
  • The Pekwm Homepage - A window manager originally based on aewm++, but now doesn't resemble this at all; has an expanded feature-set, including window grouping (similar to ion, pwm, or fluxbox), autoproperties, xinerama, keygrabber that supports keychains. Latest release is 0.1.6, 2007-05-28. What's Related?
  • The Window Maker FAQ - A collection of questions and answers about Window Maker; questions are routinely taken and added in from the mailing lists and IRC forums. What's Related?
  • Window Maker - Your Next Window Manager - An X11 window manager originally designed to provide integration support for the GNUstep Desktop Environment; includes compatibility options so it works with other desktop environments such as GNOME and KDE. What's Related?
  • Window Managers for X - Comprehensive guide to window managers and desktop environments for the X Window System; includes screenshots, comparisons, configuration files, news, resources and discussion about the major window managers. What's Related?
  • Wm2 - A basic window manager for X; has both tiled and traditional window management styles. What's Related?
  • Wmx - A window manager for X based on wm2, but more experimental. What's Related?

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