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CDE
CDE, Common Desktop Environment: CDE, IBM AIX: CDE
FVWM
Fvwm Resource, FVWM-95, Jos van Riswick - Fvwm themes, The EWS FVWM-2 and FVWM-95 Tutorial, The Official FVWM Homepage, The Official FVWM Themes Home Page
IceWM
IceMC, IceMe, IceWM, IceWO, KIceMenu, Vadim Khohlov's programs
Window Maker
Dock Apps, Icons, Themes, Largo's Window Maker Page, OpenStep Specification, Window Maker, Window Managers for X: Window Maker, wmaker@orcon, wmakerconf
aewm
A minimalistic X11 window manager.
AfterStep Applets
Home of the distribution of applications for the AfterStep window manager.
amiwm
X window manager that tries to look and feel like Amiga Workbench.
B4Step Window Manager
B4Step is a Window Manager running under X11R6 with a different way to manage window banners. It can use OpenGL routines for animations, is Gnome compliant and has also a sound support.
Blackbox
Light window manager, without all those annoying library dependencies.
Enlightenment window manager
Enlightenment (or "E") is a window manager for X, providing a useful, and good looking graphical shell in which to work.
Evilwm
A minimalist Window Manager for the X Window System.
Fast Light Window Manager
Derived from wm2. Source code and binaries available.
FluxBox
A fast compact window manager based on the Blackbox, but offering more features.
Generic Window Manager Manual
GWM is an X window manager you can program using LISP.
GNUstep.org
Official site of GNUstep: free implementation of NeXTStep/OpenStep specification.
Ion
Text-editorish, keyboard friendly window manager.
LinuxPlanet Window Managers Page
Reviews of, and tutorials on, window managers under Linux, for beginners.
mlvwm
Macintosh Like Virtual Window Manager.
Official AfterStep Development site
Site dedicated to Development of the AfterStep Window Manager. Includes HTMLized sources, daily activity log, and TODOs.
Open Look Virtual Window Manager
Based on olwm. Allows large virtual desktops.
Oroborus
A very minimalistic, but still fully configurable windowmanager.
pekwm
A good looking but lean windowmanager with support for dockapps, tabbed windows, automatic window manipulation, dynamic menus, key sequences.
Pie Menu Window Manager
Minimal window manager that uses pie menus.
PWM
Lightweight window manager for X11 that lets multiple client windows attach to the same frame.
Qvwm Home Page
A window manager qvwm provides a strong solution for a Windows 95/98 like environment on X Window System.
Ratpoison Window Manager
A simple Window Manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations.
Sapphire Window Manager
Sapphire is a window manager for X11. It is small and fast while providing enough features to allow a person to accomplish a variety of tasks with a minimal amount of complexity. Sapphire also features a small code base written entirely in C++, root menus, and window decorations.
Sawfish
An extensible window manager using a Lisp-based scripting language. All window decorations are configurable and all user-interface policy is controlled through the extension language. This is no layer on top of twm, but a wholly new architecture.
Small Window Manager
Minimal window manager intended for use with small screen sizes.
The Mlvwm + Kfm Site
How to create a mac-like desktop in linux.
The Official AfterStep Site
NeXTStep-like windowmanager
The Scheme Configurable (Constraints?) Window Mana
A highly configurable X Window manager written and configurable with Guile Scheme. An absolute must for any hardcore Schemer who uses X Window. Now at version 0.99.6.1 with Gnome support, a CORBA interface, a complex constraint system for pseudointelligent window placement and management, extremely flexible decoration configurability, and a GUI configuration interface for non-Scheme hackers, plus an assortment of decoration themes.
The Stump Window Manager
A tiling, keyboard driven X11 Window Manager written entirely in Common Lisp.
VTWM
A virtual window manager for the X Window System. It is based on twm, and can be used just like twm. It provides multiple virtual screens, a 3D look, and lots of neat features.
Window Manager Icons Distribution
a project to provide an efficient configurable icon distribution
Window Managers for X
Guide to window managers for the X Window System. Descriptions, screenshots and configuration files for all popular window managers, along with related resources, including a news and discussion area.
WindowLab
A small and simple window manager of novel design.
wm2
Really minimal window manager
wmx
wmx is also a window manager. Home page quote : "wmx is a window manager for X. It's based on wm2, and it retains a similar look and feel, but it's intended to provide an experimental vehicle for features that fall comfortably outside the scope of the manifesto for the original wm2."