µwm - (uwm) µ Window Manager download

µwm is a lightweight stacking window manager for the X11 Window System and is written in C and uses only libxcb at a minimum. It has builtin menus/panels/buttons and other plugins.

Features

stacking window manager
low CPU, memory, resource and space usage
written in C with only X protocol C-language Binding (XCB) library
full featured executable less than 200k
configurable and themeable
builtin menu(s)
builtin panel(s) (other names are slit/bar/dock)
with button, clock, netload, pager, swallow (dockapp), systray, task-list

Project Samples

µwm version 0.23 with wmnet, wmdia, wmcpumon, wmc2d

µwm version 0.30 with rxvt and exit confirm window

Project Activity

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License

Affero GNU Public License

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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

BSD, Linux

Languages

English

Intended Audience

Developers, End Users/Desktop

User Interface

Project is a window manager, TabletPC, X Window System (X11)

Programming Language

Related Categories

C Window Managers

Registered

2009-09-15

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