aewm
- Ebuilds: 1, Stable: 1.3.12-r1 Description:
aewm is a minimalist window manager for X11. It has no nifty features,
but is light on resources and extremely simple in appearance. It should
eventually make a good reference implementation of the ICCCM. A few
separate programs are included to handle running programs, switching
between windows, etc.
Homepage:https://www.red-bean.com/decklin/aewm/ License: MIT 9wm
aewm++
- Ebuilds: 1, Stable: 1.1.5-r3 Description:
The aewm++ window manager is a fork of the popular minimal window manager
aewm for the X Windows System. What makes it different is its codebase,
feature set and focus.
Homepage:https://github.com/frankhale/aewmpp License: GPL-2
amiwm
- Ebuilds: 1, Testing: 0.22.01_p20230916 Description:
amiwm is an X window manager that tries to make your display look and
feel like an Amiga Workbench screen. It is fully functional and can do
all the usual window manager stuff, like moving and resizing windows.
Homepage:https://github.com/sdomi/amiwm License: amiwm
awesome (ambiguous, available in 2 overlays)
- Ebuilds: 8, Stable: 4.3-r104, Testing: 4.3-r104, 4.3-r102 Description: A dynamic floating and tiling window manager
Homepage:https://awesomewm.org/ License: GPL-2
blackbox
- Ebuilds: 2, Stable: 0.77-r1, Testing: 0.77-r2 Description:
Blackbox is that fast, light window manager you have been looking for
without all those annoying library dependencies. If you have a C++
compiler and the X Window System you can compile and use it.
Homepage:https://github.com/bbidulock/blackboxwm License: MIT
bspwm
- Ebuilds: 2, Stable: 0.9.10, Testing: 0.9.12 Description: Tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning
Homepage:https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm/ License: BSD-2
cwm
- Ebuilds: 2, Stable: 7.4, Testing: 9999 Description: OpenBSD fork of calmwm, a clean and lightweight window manager
Homepage:https://github.com/leahneukirchen/cwm
dwm (ambiguous, available in 3 overlays)
- Ebuilds: 9, Stable: 6.8, 6.4, Testing: 9999 Description:
dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiling and
floating modes. Either mode can be applied dynamically, optimizing the
environment for the application in use and the task performed.
Homepage:https://dwm.suckless.org/ License: MIT
echinus
- Ebuilds: 1, Testing: 0.4.9 Description: A window manager for X in the spirit of dwm
Homepage:https://plhk.ru/ License: MIT
emwm
- Ebuilds: 3, Stable: 9999, Testing: 9999 Description: EMWM is a fork of the Motif Window Manager with fixes and enhancements.
Homepage:https://fastestcode.org/emwm.html
enlightenment (ambiguous, available in 2 overlays)
- Ebuilds: 2, Stable: 0.27.1, Testing: 0.27.1 Description: The Enlightenment WM based on the EFL. Enlightenment is a Window Manager, Compositor and Minimal Desktop for Linux (the primary platform), BSD and any other compatible UNIX system. Source code releases are on our download page. Visit our contribute page for our latest source code repositories. See http://www.enlightenment.org
Homepage:https://www.enlightenment.org/ License: BSD-2
evilwm
- Ebuilds: 3, Stable: 1.4.3, Testing: 1.5 Description:
A minimalist window manager for the X Window System. It maximises screen
real estate and provides good keyboard control. It is currently based on
aewm.
Homepage:https://www.6809.org.uk/evilwm/ License: MIT 9wm
fluxbox (ambiguous, available in 3 overlays)
- Ebuilds: 3, Stable: 1.3.7-r5, Testing: 1.3.7-r5 Description:
Fluxbox is yet another windowmanager for X. Originally based upon the
Blackbox 0.61.1 code, Fluxbox has been extended to include a new tabbed
window handling mechanism, an improved configurable window title bar,
better KDE and GNOME integration, an integrated key grabber and
countless additional features.
Homepage:
https://www.fluxbox.org
https://github.com/fluxbox/fluxbox
License: MIT
fvwm3
- Ebuilds: 5
Description:
fvwm3 is a multiple large virtual desktop window manager.
The successor to fvwm-2.6, Fvwm3 is intended to be extremely customizable and extendible while consuming a relatively small amount of resources.
Homepage:https://www.fvwm.org/
icewm
- Ebuilds: 2, Stable: 3.4.1, Testing: 3.4.1 Description:
IceWM is a window manager designed for speed, usability, and consistency.
It is able to emulate the looks of Motif, OS/2, and Windows, and allows you
to have a customizable look using pixmaps.
Homepage:https://ice-wm.org/ https://github.com/ice-wm/icewm License: GPL-2
jwm (ambiguous, available in 2 overlays)
- Ebuilds: 2, Stable: 2.4.3, Testing: 9999, 2.4.3 Description: JWM
Homepage:https://joewing.net/projects/jwm License: GPL-2
larswm
- Ebuilds: 1, Stable: 7.5.3-r2, Testing: 7.5.3-r2 Description:
larswm is a modified version of the 9wm window manager that adds virtual
desktops, automatic window tiling, and many other features designed to
make it a highly efficient user environment. One of the design goals is
that you should never have to manually shuffle windows around on the
screen. Another is that it should use as little CPU time, RAM, and screen
space for itself as possible.
Homepage:http://www.fnurt.net/larswm/ License: 9wm
lwm
- Ebuilds: 1, Stable: 1.2.4, Testing: 1.2.4 Description:
lwm is a window manager for X that tries to keep out of your face.
There are no icons, no button bars, no icon docks, no root menus,
no nothing.
Homepage:https://www.jfc.org.uk/software/lwm.html License: GPL-2+
marco (ambiguous, available in 2 overlays)
- Ebuilds: 4, Stable: 1.28.1-r2, Testing: 9999 License: FDL-1.2+ GPL-2+ LGPL-2+ MIT
matwm2
- Ebuilds: 2, Testing: 0.1.2_pre3-r3 Description: Simple EWMH compatible window manager with titlebars and frames
Homepage:https://github.com/segin/matwm2 License: MIT
musca
- Ebuilds: 1, Stable: 0.9.24_p20100226-r4 Description: A simple dynamic window manager, with features nicked from ratpoison and dwm
Homepage:https://launchpad.net/musca License: GPL-3
mutter (ambiguous, available in 3 overlays)
- Ebuilds: 6
Description: GNOME compositing window manager based on Clutter
Homepage:https://mutter.gnome.org License: GPL-2+
notion
- Ebuilds: 2, Testing: 9999 Description: Notion is a tiling, tabbed window manager for the X window system
Homepage:https://notionwm.net/
oroborus
- Ebuilds: 1, Stable: 2.0.20-r2 Description:
Oroborus is a small and simple but configurable and themeable window
manager. There is no fancy dock, clip, wharf, or root menu - these
utilities can be provided by other programs. It has support for GNOME
and session management, or can be run as a stand-alone window manager.
Homepage:https://www.oroborus.org License: GPL-2
pekwm
- Ebuilds: 2, Stable: 0.3.2, Testing: 0.4.2 Description:
Pekwm is a window manager based on aewm++, but it no longer resembles
it. It is highly configurable, rather fast, and aimed towards being
usable while remaining pretty enough to look at. Features include
client window grouping into one window frame, automatic window size,
location, grouping and title rewriting properties, keychains, Xinerama
support, pixmap theming, and dynamic menus.
Homepage:
https://www.pekwm.se/
https://github.com/pekwm/pekwm
License: GPL-2
ratpoison
- Ebuilds: 2, Stable: 1.4.9-r3, Testing: 1.4.9-r3 Description:
Ratpoison is a simple Window Manager with no fat library dependencies,
no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no rodent dependence. It
is largely modelled after GNU Screen which has done wonders in the
virtual terminal market.
All windows are maximized and kept maximized to take full advantage of
your precious screen real estate.
All interaction with the window manager is done through keystrokes.
ratpoison has a prefix map to minimize the key clobbering that cripples
Emacs and other quality pieces of software.
Homepage:https://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/ License: GPL-2+ || ( GPL-2+ FDL-1.2+ )
stumpwm
- Ebuilds: 1, Testing: 22.05_p20220818 Description:
Stumpwm is a tiling, keyboard driven X11 Window Manager written entirely in
Common Lisp.
If you're tired of flipping through themes like channel-surfing, and going
from one perfect-except-for-just-one-thing window manager to another
even-more-broken-in-some-other-way then perhaps Stumpwm can help.
Stumpwm attempts to be customizable yet visually minimal. There are no
window decorations, no icons, and no buttons.
It does have various hooks to attach your personal customizations, and
variables to tweak.
* Hack the good hack
* debug your good hack
* customize your window manager
while it's running. That's right. With a 100% Common Lisp window manager
there's no stopping the hacks. Just re-eval and GO!
Homepage:https://stumpwm.github.io/ License: GPL-2
treewm
- Ebuilds: 1, Stable: 0.4.5-r2, Testing: 0.4.5-r2 Description: WindowManager that arranges the windows in a tree (not in a list)
Homepage:http://treewm.sourceforge.net/ License: GPL-2
vtwm
- Ebuilds: 1, Stable: 5.4.7-r3, Testing: 5.4.7-r3 Description:
VTWM, one of many TWM descendants, implements a Virtual
Desktop, meaning that what is currently on screen is just a portion of a
larger workspace. What portion of the virtual desktop that is displayed,
and whatever windows might be visible within it, are simple
point-and-click operations within a scaled representation of the
workspace.
Homepage:http://www.vtwm.org/ License: MIT
windowlab
- Ebuilds: 1, Stable: 1.40-r2, Testing: 1.40-r2 Description:
WindowLab is a small and simple window manager of novel design.
It has a click-to-focus but not raise-on-focus policy, a
window resizing mechanism that allows one or many edges of a
window to be changed in one action, and an innovative menubar
that shares the same part of the screen as the taskbar. Window
titlebars are prevented from going off the edge of the screen
by constraining the mouse pointer, and when appropriate the
pointer is also constrained to the taskbar/menubar in order to
make target menu items easier to hit.
Homepage:https://github.com/nick-gravgaard/windowlab License: GPL-2
wmfs
- Ebuilds: 1, Testing: 20180520 Description: Window Manager From Scratch, A tiling window manager highly configurable
Homepage:https://github.com/xorg62/wmfs License: BSD
wmii
- Ebuilds: 1, Testing: 3.9.2-r8 Description:
wmii is a dynamic window manager for X11. It is highly customizable and
usable with keyboard and mouse. It supports conventional, tabbed and
tiled window management and has a small memory footprint. It is highly
modularized and uses an inter-process communication interface which
conforms to the 9P2000 protocol introduced by the Plan 9 operating
system.
Homepage:https://github.com/0intro/wmii License: MIT