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awesome

A dynamic window manager for the X Window System developed in the C and Lua programming languages.

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    A dynamic tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii, and written in C.

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    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.

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    Openbox is a highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support.

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    xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell.

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    A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning

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    Fluxbox is a window manager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code.

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    icewm home page . Bug Tracking. If you have a patch, a bug report or a feature request to submit, please do so at the icewm project page at SourceForge.

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    Qtile is a full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written in Python.

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

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    Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly.

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    Ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window...

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    spectrwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.

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

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Top 13 Best Tiling Window Managers For Linux In 2022
Awesome is a free & open-source next-generation tiling manager for X that is designed to be fast and adaptable, with a focus on developers, power users, and anyone who wants to have more control over their graphical environment.
13 Best Tiling Window Managers for Linux
awesome is a free and open-source next-generation tiling manager for X built to be fast and extensible and it is primarily aimed at developers, power users, and anyone who would like to control their graphical environment.
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Categories: Window Manager, Linux, Utilities