Top 12 open-source products relevant to Window Manager and Linux

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

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

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

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

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

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Also known as Joe's Window Manager. Created in 2003, one of the default window manager for Puppy Linux, and actively updated by Joe, its creator.

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Window Maker is a free and open-source window manager for the X Window System.

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The XQuartz project is an open-source effort to develop a version of the X.

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Game engine and multimedia framework and display server.

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Lumina is a lightweight, BSD licensed, standards-compliant desktop environment based upon Qt and...

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GNUstep is a mature Framework, suited both for advanced GUI desktop applications as well as server...

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OS & Utilities.

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