Openbox

Openbox is a highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support. The *box visual style is well known for its minimalistic appearance.

Free Open Source Linux BSD

i3

i3 is a dynamic tiling window manager with clean, readable and documented code, featuring extended Xinerama support, usage of libxcb instead of xlib and several improvements over wmii.

Free Open Source Linux BSD

Fluxbox

Fluxbox is a window manager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. It is very light on resources and easy to handle but yet full of features to make an easy, and extremely fast, desktop experience.

Free Open Source Linux BSD C++

awesome

awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast, extensible and licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license.

Free Open Source Linux BSD

Xmonad

xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell. In a normal WM, you spend half your time aligning and searching for windows. xmonad makes work easier, by automating this.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux

dwm

dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts. All of the layouts can be applied dynamically, optimising the environment for the application in use and the task performed.

Free Open Source Linux BSD

Amethyst

Amethyst is a tiling window manager for Mac similar to the xmonad tiling window manager popular on Linux.

Free Open Source Mac OS X

Bluetile

Bluetile is a tiling window manager for Linux, designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment. It provides both a traditional, stacking layout mode as well as...

Free Open Source Linux

spectrwm

spectrwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff....

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

IceWM

IceWM is a window manager for the X Window System (freedesktop, XFree86). The goal of IceWM is speed, simplicity, and not getting in the user's way.

Free Open Source Linux

Ratpoison

Ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no rodent dependence. The screen can be split into...

Free Open Source Linux

Phoenix

Phoenix is a lightweight OS X window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript. You can also easily use languages which compile to JavaScript such as CoffeeScript....

Free Open Source Mac OS X GitHub

pekwm

pekwm is a window manager that once up on a time was based on the aewm++ window manager, but it has evolved enough that it no longer resembles aewm++ at all. It has a...

Free Open Source Linux

Sawfish

Sawfish is an extensible window manager using a Lisp-based scripting language. Its policy is very minimal compared to most window managers. Its aim is simply to manage...

Free Open Source Linux

Sway

Sway is a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager, but for Wayland instead of X11.

Free Open Source Linux

herbstluftwm

herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib.

Free Open Source Linux BSD

bspwm

A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning.

Free Open Source Linux

WMFS²

WMFS² is a lightweight and highly configurable tiling window manager for X written in C. WMFS² is a free software distributed under the BSD license. It can be...

Free Open Source Linux

qtile

Qtile is a full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written in Python. Qtile is simple, small, and extensible. It's easy to write your own layouts, widgets...

Free Open Source Linux