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window-managers

Tiling wms

Bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning. (C)
cocowm - Column Commander Window Manager for X11 Window System. (C)
dk - tiling window manager taking inspiration from dwm, bspwm, and xmonad. (C)
PaperWM - Tiled scrollable window management for Gnome Shell. (JavaScript)
catwm - very simple tiling window manager. (C)
coma - My minimalistic X11 window manager. (C)
darwintiler - No frills, super easy tiling "window manager" for MacOS and x11/Linux. (C, Nim)
echinus - a lightweight and easily configurable tiling window manager .(C)
endlesswm - A proof of concept of a scrolling window manager. (C)
exwm - Emacs X window manager. (Emacs Lisp)
fpwm - python tiling window manager .(python)
herbstluftwm - A manual tiling window manager for X11. (C++,python)
howm - A lightweight, X11 tiling window manager that behaves like vim. (C)
i3 - A tiling window manager. (C , perl)
larswm - A tiling window manager based on 9wm. (C)
leftwm - A tiling window manager for Adventurers. (rust)
marwind - A simple X11 tiling window manager. (Go)
notion - Tiling tabbed window manager. (C,Lua)
pytyle1x - Tiling manager which runs on top of EWMH window managers. (Python)
qtile - A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python .(python)
quicktile - (Adds window-tiling hotkeys to any X11 desktop. (An analogue to WinSplit Revolution for people who don't want to use Compiz Grid. (Python)
ratpoison - A simple Window Manager with no fat library dependencies.(C)
river - A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor. (Zig)
sara - Originally a fork of catwm, now an offspring of dwm with a streamlined featureset, plus some bspwm. (C)
sdorfehs - X11 Window manager. (C)
shellshape - tiling window manager extension for gnome-shell .(typescript)
shod - hybrid (floating and tiling) tabbed window manager. (C)
stumpwm - X11 Window Manager written entirely in Common Lisp. (Common Lisp)
subtle - A grid-based manual window manager. (C, Ruby)
taowm - The Acutely Opinionated Window Manager. (Go)
tidalwm - Simple and sane tiling window manager for Gnome Shell .(JavaScript)
wmderland - X11 tiling window manager using space partitioning trees. (C++)
wmii - A small, scriptable window manager, with a 9P filesystem interface and an acme-like layout. (C)
xoat - An obstinate, asymmetric, tiling, window manager for X. (C)

Stacking and floating wms

2bwm - A fast floating WM written over the XCB library and derived from mcwm. (C)
9wm - X11 Window Manager inspired by Plan 9's rio. (C)
Iwm - window manager for X that tries to keep out of your face. (C)
aewmpp - a small window manager for X11 based originally off aewm . (C++)
afterstep - Super configurable, extra lightweight, and fluidly fast Window Manager for X. (C)
berry - A healthy, byte-sized window manager. (C)
blackbox - A window manager for X11 (C++)
bouncy-window-manager. A toy X11 window manager that bounces windows around. (rust)
compiz - OpenGL compositing manager . (C)
cswm - A simple X11 window manager. (C#)
cwm - portable version of OpenBSD's cwm(1) window manager (C)
eggwm - A lightweight QT4/QT5 window manager. (C++)
evilwm - A really great window manager that's usable without writing a 20 line configuration file. (C)
footwm-chez - Implementation of footwm in chez scheme. (scheme)
fluxbox - a windowmanager for X that was based on the Blackbox. (C++)
flwm - fast light window manager. (C)
fvwm3 - FVWM version 3 -- the successor to fvwm2. (C)
gala - beautiful window manager for Pantheon. (vala)
goomwm - Get out of my way, Window Manager! . (C)
HOTDOG - X11 Window Manager with Windows 3.1 Hot Dog Stand, Amiga Workbench, Atari ST GEM, and Classic Mac UI. (objective-c)
icewm - A window manager designed for speed, usability, and consistency. (C++)
lcarswm - carswm (LCARS Window Manager) is a window manager that is supposed to look like an LCARS interface. It's written in Kotlin and utilizing XLib. (kotlin)
jbwm - Tiny and powerful window manager for X11. (C)
jwm - Joe's window manager. (C)
karmen - A window manager with support for docks and hidpi displays. (C)
kwin - Easy to use, but flexible, X Window Manager and Wayland Compositor. (C++)
marco - mate's default wm. (C)
metacity - Gnome 2 wm . (C)
miniwinwm - Open source embedded window manager with overlapped windows. (C)
muffin - The window management library for the Cinnamon desktop (libmuffin) and its sample WM binary (muffin) . (C)
mutter - A Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library.
no-wm - Use X11 without a window manager . (C)
octopus-window-manager - Low resource X11 Window manager using libcairo. (C)
openbox - Highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support. (C)
pawm - a minimalistic window manager for the X Window System. (C)
pekwm - X11 window manager .(C++)
starwm - an extensible, floating and tiling, X window manager for linux (rust)
sowm - An itsy bitsy floating window manager (220~ sloc!) .(C)
tinywm - The tiniest window manager. (C)
twm - Timeless Windows Manager . (C)
ukwm - ukui window manager . (C)
uwm- Useless window manager - Not a window manager!!! Just window manager experiments... (C)
waimea - An X11 window manager designed for maximum efficiency. (C++)
windowlab - A small and simple window manager of novel design . (C)
windowmaker - X11 window manager originally designed to provide integration support for the GNUstep Desktop Environment . (C)
vswm - A very stupid window manager. (C)
worm A floating, tag-based window manager. (nim)
wm2 - a window manager for X. (C)
xfwm3 - xfce's window manager. (C)
xwm - A tiny XCB floating window manager. (C)

Dynamic tiling wms

adwm - advanced dynamic window manager. (C)
Alopex - tabbed tiling window manager .(C)
awesome - awesome window manager .(lua)
chamferwm - A tiling X11 window manager with Vulkan compositor. (C++)
dwm - dynamic window manager. (C)
frankenwm - Fast dynamic tiling X11 window manager. (C)
Hyprland - Dynamic tiling Wayland compositor based on wlroots that doesn't sacrifice on its looks. (C++)
instantwm- window manager for instantOS . (C)
kranewm - An ICCCM & EWMH compliant X11 reparenting, dynamic window manager. (C++)
monsterwm - tiny but monstrous tiling window manager. (C)
nwm - A dynamic window manager for X11 written with Node.js. (Javascript)
sawfish - Sawfish Window-Manager (Common Lisp)
spectrwm - A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11. (C)
sxwm - Superior X Window Manager. (C)
velox - Window manager inspired by dwm and xmonad. (C)
wingo - A fully-featured window manager. (go)
wzrd - An ICCCM & EWMH compliant X11 reparenting, dynamic window manager. (rust)
xmonad - a small but functional ICCCM-compliant tiling window manager . (Haskell)

MacOS wms

yabai - A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning. (C)
Amethyst - Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad. (Swift)