Software:Comparison of X window managers
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This article compares variety of different X window managers. For an introduction to the topic, see X Window System.
General information
- ↑ LGPL-2.1-only with naming restrictions on modified versions.
Features
Name | Configurable titlebar buttons | Graphical configuration | Hotkeys | ICCCM/EWMH compliant | Panel for window switching | Tabbed windows | Themeable |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
9wm | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | |
No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
awesome | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Berry[citation needed] | No | Yes[lower-alpha 1] | Yes[lower-alpha 2] | No | No | No | Yes |
Blackbox | No | Depends[lower-alpha 3] | Depends[lower-alpha 4] | Yes[lower-alpha 5] | Yes | No | Yes |
No | No | Yes[lower-alpha 6] | Partial | No | No | No | |
Compiz | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Depends[lower-alpha 3] | Yes | Yes |
cwm | no titlebar buttons | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | |
dkwm | |||||||
dwm | no titlebar buttons | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |
Enlightenment | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
evilwm[3] | no titlebar buttons | No | Yes | Partial[3] | No | No | Yes |
EXWM[citation needed] | No | No | Yes | Partial | No | Depends | Yes |
Fluxbox | Yes | Depends[lower-alpha 3] | Yes | Yes[8] | Yes | Yes | Yes |
FLWM | No | Yes | No[lower-alpha 7] | No | No | ||
FVWM | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[9] | Depends[lower-alpha 3][10][11] |
herbstluftwm | no titlebar buttons | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
i3 | no titlebar buttons | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
IceWM | Yes | Depends[lower-alpha 3] | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Ion | no titlebar buttons | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
JWM | Yes | Depends[lower-alpha 3] | Yes | EWMH | Yes | No | Yes |
KWin (KDE) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Matchbox | EWMH compliance | No | No | Yes | |||
Metacity (GNOME) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Mutter (GNOME/MeeGo) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gnome Shell | No | Yes |
Motif Window Manager (mwm) | No | No | Yes | No[lower-alpha 8] | |||
Openbox | Yes | Depends[lower-alpha 3] | Yes | Yes | Depends[lower-alpha 3] | No | Yes |
PekWM | Yes | No | Yes | Partial | No | Yes | Yes |
Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |
Qtile | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Ragnar | |||||||
Ratpoison | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Sawfish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | primitive | Yes |
SithWM | no titlebar buttons | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | |
no titlebar buttons | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | solid colors | |
steamcompmgr[citation needed] | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | |
StumpWM | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
twm | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | solid colors | |
uwm | |||||||
Window Maker | No | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Wingo[citation needed] | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
WMFS[citation needed] | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
wmii | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Xfwm (Xfce) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
xmonad | Yes | No | Yes | Yes / ? | Depends[lower-alpha 3] | Yes | Yes |
worm | |||||||
Name | Configurable titlebar buttons | Graphical configuration | Hotkeys | ICCCM/EWMH compliant | Panel for window switching | Tabbed windows | Themeable |
See also
- Comparison of X Window System desktop environments
- Window manager
- List of Wayland compositors
References
- ↑ "A Memory Comparison of Light Linux Desktops" (in en-US). l3net - a layer 3 networking blog. 2013-03-17. https://l3net.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/a-memory-comparison-of-light-linux-desktops/.
- ↑ "bspwm License". 2 November 2021. https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm/blob/master/LICENSE.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "evilwm - standards support". http://www.6809.org.uk/evilwm/standards.shtml. "evilwm releases following and including version 1.1.0 follow the EWMH standard."
- ↑ "evilwm.txt". https://www.6809.org.uk/evilwm/doc/evilwm.txt.
- ↑ "steamos-compositor debian source package". /steamos-compositor-1.35/src/steamcompmgr.c. https://repo.steampowered.com/steamos/pool/main/s/steamos-compositor/steamos-compositor_1.35.tar.xz.
- ↑ "steamos-compositor amd64 debian package". /usr/share/doc/steamos-compositor/copyright. https://repo.steampowered.com/steamos/pool/main/s/steamos-compositor/steamos-compositor_1.35+bsos1_amd64.deb. "License: BSD-2-clause"
- ↑ "NetWM - Blackbox". http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/NetWM. "Blackbox releases up to and including version 0.65.0 follow the ICCCM standard, while 0.70 and later follow EWMH."
- ↑ "Tables". http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/docs/ewmh-support.html.
- ↑ FvwmTabs
- ↑ Fvwm Themes
- ↑ FVWM-Crystal
External links
- Comparison of extensible window managers compares window managers "extensible" by user scripts, like Sawfish, xmonad, etc.
- The Comprehensive List of Window Managers for Unix
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