Window Managers

• FluxBox
  Window manager based od BlackBox, but how author of this project answer the question "So what's the difference between fluxbox and blackbox then?"..."LOTS" and he sais true. Main features of FluxBox ...
  
• Window Maker
  Good windows manager, which doesn't try to resemble Windows API (it's designed to look like NextStep instead). Kvalitní window manager, který se nesnaží podobat Windows (nýbrž NextStepu). It...
  
• Enlightenment
  Enlightenment is a window manager for X. Its design goal is to be as configurable as possible - in look AND in feel. Enlightenment's current design aim is to become a desktop shell. That means it wil...
  
• fvwm
  FVWM is a multiple large virtual desktop window manager originally derived from twm. ...
  
• Xfce
  XFce is a lightweight desktop environment for various *NIX systems. Designed for productivity, it loads and executes applications fast, while conserving system resources. ...
  
• Qvwm
  Qvwm is a Windows 95 like window manager for the X Window System. It allows Windows 95/NT users to use the X Window System without a hassle and X Window System users to use Windows 95 without a hassl...
  
• Pekwm
  The Pekwm Window Manager is written by Claes Nästen. The code is based on the aewm++ window manager, but it has evolved enough that it no longer resembles aewm++ at all. It also has an expanded feat...
  
• Xilicius Graphical Enviroment
  XIGE is a X11 window manager, is fast, beauty gradients, slight, new handling menus, themes (cursors, colors, textures, fonts), ideal for programmers, servers and laptops. "XIGEsetRoot" and "xigeconf...
  
• XPde & XPwm
  It's a desktop environment(XPde) and a window manager(XPwm) for Linux. It tries to make easier for Windows XP users to use a Linux box. Nothing more, no clipboard compatibility between Gtk and Qt app...
  
• Kahakai
  Lightwieght multidesktop window manager, based on Waimea. Supports transluent menus and window titlebars, GNOME, KDE, Xinarama and dockapps. Uses python scripting for powerful configuration. Styles a...
  
• WMI - Window Manager Improved
  WMI is a window manager for X11 which combines the best ideas/features of larswm, ion, and trswm into one window manager. ...
  
• BlackBox
  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. ...
  
• icewm
  IceWM is a window manager for the X11 Window System. The goal of IceWM is speed, simplicity, and not getting in the user's way. ...
  
• Metacity
  Metacity is a lightweight window manager written by Havoc Pennington from Red Hat. The first version was 2.3, which was released in 2001. It is implemented with the GTK+ 2.x toolkit, and so integrate...
  
• WindowLab
  WindowLab is a small and simple window manager of novel design. It is click-to-focus, shares its window depth policy with the Amiga, and has a window resizing/reshaping method similar to that of 8-1/...
  
• Openbox
  Openbox is a standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible window manager. Openbox works with your applications, and makes your desktop easier to manage. This is because the approach to its de...
  
• xfce-goodies
  The "Goodies for Xfce" project includes additional software and artwork that are related to the Xfce desktop. ...
  
• ratpoison
  Very interesting windows manager, which is all commanded by shortcuts. ...
  
• PWM2
  There are two essentially different versions of PWM: the original very lightweight window manager, and the newer Ion-based PWM2. PWM was the first window manager to implement "tabbed frames" or t...
  
• fvwm95
  Win95 lookalike Window Manager for X fvwm95 is a Window Manager for the X Window System, configured to look like a win95 user interface. Fvwm95 is no longer maintained upstream; its main continued ad...
  
• vtwm
  When the X Consortium released the X Window System, they included TWM, the "Tab Window Manager" (aka "Tom's Window Manager", after Tom LaStrange, the main author). It was primitive looking by today's...
  
• AfterStep
  Window manager for X11. It has the same GUI as NeXTStep ...
  
• UDE
  UDE, the Unix Desktop Environment, is a new GUI for Linux. It has a new look'n'feel. The goals of UDE are to be user friendly, fast and as different from MS-Windows as possible. ...
  
• Haydar Desktop Environment
  HDE is an open source desktop environment for Linux/Unix Operating Systems. Because it makes heavy use of a high level API it can be kept small, stable and easy to maintain. HDE can emulate the l...
  
• KDE
  KDE is a powerful Open Source graphical desktop environment for Unix workstations. It combines ease of use, contemporary functionality, and outstanding graphical design with the technological superio...