Open Source C Window Managers
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Project has been moved to https://github.com/marchaesen/vcxsrv Windows X-server based on the xorg git sources (like xming or cygwin's xwin), but compiled with Visual C++ 2012 Express Edition. Source code can also be compiled with VS2008, VS2008 Express Edition and VS2010 Express Edition, although current project and makefile are not fully compatible anymore. Versions starting from 1.14.3.0 are not compatible with Windows XP anymore.
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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.
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Xming X Server for Windows
X Window System Server for Windows
Xming is the leading X Window System Server for Microsoft Windows 8/7/Vista/XP (+ server 2012/2008/2003). It is fully featured, small and fast, simple to install and because it is standalone native Microsoft Windows, easily made portable (not needing a machine-specific installation). -
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VirtuaWin - Multiple virtual desktops
Multiple desktops on a Windows box
VirtuaWin is an application for the Windows user community that misses the wonderful multiple desktop functionality often used on Unix systems. It is simple, reliable and highly configurable, supporting up to 20 virtual desktops. -
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FlickOS
FlickOS is a lightweight Linux desktop based on Debian 13 with a labwc
FlickOS 2.x is a lightweight Linux desktop based on Debian 13 (trixie) with a labwc Wayland session. It ships as a live ISO with the Calamares installer. One hybrid ISO boots BIOS and UEFI and can be written to USB. 64-bit only. Three layouts switch live: Redmond (default, one bottom panel), Cupertino (top bar and dock), and Traditional (top panel and window list). Arc-Dark by default, with a Light desktop style. Optional tiling is off by default (Super+T). Installed systems get a graphical login; the live session logs in automatically. Includes Firefox ESR, LibreOffice, VLC, Bluetooth, printing, Flatpak, PipeWire and NetworkManager. Firewall on (incoming blocked), automatic security updates, and FlickOS desktop updates via apt. No in-place upgrade from FlickOS 1.x (Ubuntu 20.04 / LXLE). Back up and install 2.2 fresh. Source: https://github.com/dvbondoy/flickos-apt Discord: https://discord.gg/xmpqbdfep Community: https://www.reddit.com/r/flickos/ License: GPL-3 -
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CDE - Common Desktop Environment
The Common Desktop Environment, the classic UNIX desktop
The Common Desktop Environment was created by a collaboration of Sun, HP, IBM, DEC, SCO, Fujitsu and Hitachi. Used on a selection of commercial UNIXs, it is now available as open-source software for the first time. For support, see: https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/Home/ -
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yabai
A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning
yabai is a tiling window manager for macOS that extends the native windowing system with fully scriptable command-line control. It uses a binary space partitioning algorithm to auto-tile windows, supports extensive keyboard shortcut mapping (via skhd), and enhances productivity for power users. -
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Rofi
A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
Rofi started as a clone of the simple switcher, written by Sean Pringle - a popup window switcher roughly based on a super switcher. Simpleswitcher laid the foundations, and therefore Sean Pringle deserves most of the credit for this tool. Rofi (renamed, as it lost the simple property) has been extended with extra features, like an application launcher and ssh-launcher, and can act as a drop-in menu replacement, making it a very versatile tool. Rofi, like dmenu, will provide the user with a textual list of options where one or more can be selected. This can either be running an application, selecting a window, or options provided by an external script. It's not an application that can support every possible use case. It tries to be generic enough to be usable by everybody. Rofi has several built-in modes implementing common use cases and can be extended by scripts (either called from Rofi or calling Rofi) or plugins. -
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dwm
dwm for Wayland
dwl is a compact, hackable compositor for Wayland based on wlroots. It is intended to fill the same space in the Wayland world that dwm does in X11, primarily in terms of philosophy, and secondarily in terms of functionality. dwl is not meant to provide every feature under the sun. Instead, like dwm, it sticks to features that are necessary, simple, and straightforward to implement given the base on which it is built. Simple window borders, tags, keybindings, client rules, mouse move/resize. Providing a built-in status bar is an exception to this goal, to avoid dependencies on font rendering and/or drawing libraries when an external bar could work well. -
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GUI Windows (OS) program that allows you to strip the window borders from most programs and align the program at 0, 0. Created specifically so that one can play half life/counter strike in 'windowed mode' but full screen with no blue border.
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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.
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The project tries to create a free, fast and feature-full virtual desktop manager for Microsoft Windows. This application enhances the Microsoft "Window Manager" up to the level of usual Unix Window Manager, by providing virtual desktops, as well as some additional features, like always on top, window shading...
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Star Trek 24/7: LCARS (Starfleet) GUI, full-screen alarm clock & calendar, games, utilities, sims, maps, graphical LCARS library, file manager, viewers, players, animation. Requires a HighColor/TrueColor DOS-based laptop w/ std. graphics & sound cards.
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Epsilons Window Manager
ewm is a tiling window manager for X based on dwm
This is a tiling window manager for Xorg based on the suckless' dynamic window manager. In short, ewm is a fork of dwm. It is a fork. I maintain it, improve it, and make it actually useable rather than saying that everything is "bloat". If you don't like it: then don't use it. -
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berry
A healthy, byte-sized window manager
A healthy, bite-sized window manager written in C over the XLib library. Controlled via a powerful command-line client, allowing users to control windows via a hotkey daemon such as sxhkd or expand functionality via shell scripts. -
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sowm
An itsy bitsy floating window manager (220~ sloc!)
An itsy bitsy floating window manager (220~ sloc!). -
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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.
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SwayFX
SwayFX: Sway, but with eye candy
Sway is an incredible window manager, and certainly one of the most well established wayland window managers. However, it is restricted to only include the functionality that existed in i3. This fork ditches the simple wlr_renderer, and replaces it with our fx_renderer, capable of rendering with fancy GLES2 effects. -
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LuninuxOS
LuninuxOS is a Debian/Ubuntu based Linux distribution.
A Linux operating system, designed and developed to be beautiful, simple, fast, and stable on many computer hardware. -
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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.
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Wind
A window manager for X
Wind is a window manager for the X Window System. It supports virtual desktops, optional Xft font rendering, and is fairly standards compliant. -
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EMWM
Enhanced Motif Window Manager and Utilities
Enhanced Motif Window Manager (MWM fork). Supports Xinerama, Xrandr, UTF-8/Xft, multiple workspaces and relevant Extended Window Manager Hints (EWMH) . A simple session manager and a /toolchest/ like launcher are available in the separate utilities package. Documentation and more on the project homepage: https://fastestcode.org/emwm.html -
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Virtue is a virtual desktop manager for MacOS 10.4. It is based upon the work done by Rich Wareham on DesktopManager (http://desktopmanager.berlios.de/).
