Open Source BSD Window Managers

Fluxbox is a X11 windowmanager build for speed and flexibility.

Enlightenment is a window manager for the X11 windowing system. Its design goal is to be as configurable as possible - in look AND in feel.

Menu Maker is 100% Python heuristics-driven menu generator for a number of X Window Managers and desktop environments. It features large knowledge base of known programs, powerful and flexible search algorithms, persistence of menus across several WMs

icewm is a window manager for the X Window System. The features of icewm are speed, simplicity, and not getting in the user's way.

This is a set of improved artwiz fonts. They are compatible with the latest fontconfig/Xft-2.0. Thus artwiz fonts work with gtk2/kde3 applications. Multiple encodings are available.

Xfce is an easy-to-use and easy-to-configure desktop environment using the popular GTK+ toolkit.

The Virtual Tab Window Manager. vtwm is a descendant of the reference X11 window manager, twm, enhanced to provide virtual desktops plus many other features, whilst remaining small and efficient.

The UDE-Project is creating a new Desktop Environment for X11. The entirely original look & feel is mainly optimized for efficient shell usage (as for programming, sysadministration etc). Offers max. screen space, stability and very low resource usage.

Fvwm95 is a window manager with Windows-95 look and feel. It is derived from the well known fvwm.

Blackbox is that fast, light window manager you have been looking for without all those annoying library dependancies. If you have a C++ compiler and the X Window System you can compile and use it.

The Wizard Desktop is a set of simple applications that maintain a common user experience along with a simple window manager. The underlying framework will allow a single-user multiple network connected computers paradigm. Communications between the framework and applications are standardized, programs can be swapped out at will. Please visit the OpenHub site.

wxMathPlot is an add-on library for wxWidgets which provides a framework for easy plotting of mathematical functions, sampled data and generic 2D plots.

FVWM - Crystal aims to create an easy to use, eye-candy but also powerful desktop environment for Linux or other Unix-like operating systems. Its goals include seeking for better ways of using window manager and providing it with eyecandy interface. It try to exercise FVWM quite a bit. It has some very interesting features unique to Linux/Unix desktops like direct controls for several media players and its ability to bring in full screen virtualy any application. It can flow through the full screened applications and the desktop in a manner similar to the application stack of the Amiga OS, which provides an innovative way to go around the desktop space, without compromising traditional X multiple desktop pages. The core code was written by harnir Maciej Delmanowski with contributions from many other folks. The current developments are led by Dominique Michel.

We moved to github https://github.com/aanatoly/fbpanel fbpanel is a lightweight X11 desktop panel. It requires only GTK-2 and X11 to compile and works with any ICCCM / NETWM compliant window manager (eg sawfish, metacity, , xfwm4, kvm) It features tasklist, pager, launcbar, clock, menu and sytray

bbtools is a set of simple and small desktop tools for the Blackbox window manager. Tools range from a pager (bbpager) to a mail notifier (bbmail).

GTK2/enlightenment file-manager. Browser-view a la NeXT/Step, Icon-/thumbnails-view a la efm. Fully themable. Microshell. Themes, thumbnailers and metadata providers (MP3/ID3, Ogg, EXIF, ...) are plugins -- you don't load what you don't need, no bloat.

An Openbox menu editor. Edit your complex xml-based openbox menus easily!

Wmping is a simple usefull program that allows to check host status in your network environment. It can be used for monitoring servers in the network.

Wind is a window manager for the X Window System. It supports virtual desktops, optional Xft font rendering, and is fairly standards compliant.

The FVWM configuration framework.

Waimea is a fast and highly customizable virtual multiple desktop window manager. It supports advanced features like transparent textures and Xft fonts.

Provide secure and stable OS, based on highly modified Linux Kernel, own package system, like "BSD Ports". Compatible with x86, Power PC. Easy to use of any level users. Complete Documentantion in many languages. 99% compatible with Windows.

Library to simplify development of Dockapps and Gnome 2 Panel Applets.

Golem is an X11 Window Manager. Design goals are that it be fast and lightweight, as well as very customizable in any way that will not prevent the first goal from being realized.

Notion is a tiling, tabbed window manager for the X window system: * Tiling: you divide the screen into non-overlapping 'tiles'. Every window occupies one tile, and is maximized to it * Tabbing: a tile may contain multiple windows - they will be 'tabbed' * Static: most tiled window managers are 'dynamic', meaning they automatically resize and move around tiles as windows appear and disappear. Notion, by contrast, does not automatically change the tiling. You're in control. Features include: * Workspaces: each workspace has its own tiling * Multihead: the mod_xinerama plugin provides very nice dual-monitor support * RandR: mod_xrandr expands on mod_xinerama and picks up changes in the randr configuration without the need for restarting Notion * Extensibility: Notion can be extended with lua scripts.