subtle

subtle is a grid-based manual tiling window manager with a strong focus on easy but customizable look and feel. In comparison to other tiling window managers, subtle has no automatic tiling of the screen size in any way.

Features

Builtin system tray
Extendable panel
Customizeable key/mouse actions
Scriptable with Ruby
Commandline client
Window tagging
EWMH / ICCCM / MWM / XDG compliant
Xinerama / XRandR support

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License

GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

BSD, Linux

Languages

English

Intended Audience

End Users/Desktop

User Interface

Project is a window manager

Programming Language

C, Ruby

Related Categories

C Window Managers, Ruby Window Managers

Registered

2007-05-22

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