Open Source C Window Managers

Project has been moved to https://github.com/marchaesen/vcxsrv Windows X-server based on the xorg git sources (like xming or cygwin's xwin), but compiled with Visual C++ 2012 Express Edition. Source code can also be compiled with VS2008, VS2008 Express Edition and VS2010 Express Edition, although current project and makefile are not fully compatible anymore. Versions starting from 1.14.3.0 are not compatible with Windows XP anymore.

Enlightenment is a window manager for the X11 windowing system. Its design goal is to be as configurable as possible - in look AND in feel.

Xming is the leading X Window System Server for Microsoft Windows 8/7/Vista/XP (+ server 2012/2008/2003). It is fully featured, small and fast, simple to install and because it is standalone native Microsoft Windows, easily made portable (not needing a machine-specific installation).

Xfce is an easy-to-use and easy-to-configure desktop environment using the popular GTK+ toolkit.

VirtuaWin is an application for the Windows user community that misses the wonderful multiple desktop functionality often used on Unix systems. It is simple, reliable and highly configurable, supporting up to 20 virtual desktops.

The Common Desktop Environment was created by a collaboration of Sun, HP, IBM, DEC, SCO, Fujitsu and Hitachi. Used on a selection of commercial UNIXs, it is now available as open-source software for the first time. For support, see: https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/Home/

i3-gaps is a fork of i3wm, a tiling window manager for X11. It is kept up to date with upstream, adding a few additional features such as gaps between windows. In order to use gaps you need to disable window titlebars. This can be done by adding only one command line to your config. Gaps are the namesake feature of i3-gaps and add spacing between windows/containers. Gaps come in two flavors, inner and outer gaps wherein inner gaps are those between two adjacent containers (or a container and an edge) and outer gaps are an additional spacing along the screen edges. Gaps can be configured in your config either globally or per workspace, and can additionally be changed during runtime using commands (e.g., through i3-msg). Outer gaps are added to the inner gaps, i.e., the gaps between a screen edge and a container will be the sum of outer and inner gaps.

The project tries to create a free, fast and feature-full virtual desktop manager for Microsoft Windows. This application enhances the Microsoft "Window Manager" up to the level of usual Unix Window Manager, by providing virtual desktops, as well as some additional features, like always on top, window shading...

icewm is a window manager for the X Window System. The features of icewm are speed, simplicity, and not getting in the user's way.

Sway is an incredible window manager, and certainly one of the most well established wayland window managers. However, it is restricted to only include the functionality that existed in i3. This fork ditches the simple wlr_renderer, and replaces it with our fx_renderer, capable of rendering with fancy GLES2 effects.

We moved to github https://github.com/aanatoly/fbpanel fbpanel is a lightweight X11 desktop panel. It requires only GTK-2 and X11 to compile and works with any ICCCM / NETWM compliant window manager (eg sawfish, metacity, , xfwm4, kvm) It features tasklist, pager, launcbar, clock, menu and sytray

MIGRATED: https://github.com/igr/dm2 DM2 provides several enhancements that helps in every day work. DM2 can minimize any window to "floating icon" (unique feature!). DM2 can minimize window to tray, make it "on-top" and provide favorites files/folders in common Open/Save dialogs.

A Linux operating system, designed and developed to be beautiful, simple, fast, and stable on many computer hardware.

GUI Windows (OS) program that allows you to strip the window borders from most programs and align the program at 0, 0. Created specifically so that one can play half life/counter strike in 'windowed mode' but full screen with no blue border.

Star Trek 24/7: LCARS (Starfleet) GUI, full-screen alarm clock & calendar, games, utilities, sims, maps, graphical LCARS library, file manager, viewers, players, animation. Requires a HighColor/TrueColor DOS-based laptop w/ std. graphics & sound cards.

AfterStep is a window manager for the Unix X Window System. Originally based on the look and feel of the NeXTStep interface, it has evolved into its own creature with interest expressed by GNUstep, to make AfterStep the window manager of choice for X

The Virtual Tab Window Manager. vtwm is a descendant of the reference X11 window manager, twm, enhanced to provide virtual desktops plus many other features, whilst remaining small and efficient.

Wmping is a simple usefull program that allows to check host status in your network environment. It can be used for monitoring servers in the network.

dwl is a compact, hackable compositor for Wayland based on wlroots. It is intended to fill the same space in the Wayland world that dwm does in X11, primarily in terms of philosophy, and secondarily in terms of functionality. dwl is not meant to provide every feature under the sun. Instead, like dwm, it sticks to features that are necessary, simple, and straightforward to implement given the base on which it is built. Simple window borders, tags, keybindings, client rules, mouse move/resize. Providing a built-in status bar is an exception to this goal, to avoid dependencies on font rendering and/or drawing libraries when an external bar could work well.

This program will let you use two screens on two different computers as if they were connected to the same computer. It even works between different operating systems. If you have two or more computers on your desk and you are tired of having several

Wind is a window manager for the X Window System. It supports virtual desktops, optional Xft font rendering, and is fairly standards compliant.

FlickOS is designed to be lightweight, fast and sustainable, with focus on efficient use of system resources. The project is based on Ubuntu 20.04 and LXLE, which provides a stable and well-supported foundation. Unnecessary packages and services are stripped away, leaving only the essential components needed to minimize resource usage. FlickOS have complete suite of applications like LibreOffice, Firefox, VLC and many essential software for daily use. Save the environment, recycle your old PCs and Flick it. Support If you are having trouble installing or have some suggestions, you can email me at dvbondoy@gmail.com. You may also join our Reddit community at r/flickos, I am always there to answer your questions. Create issues at https://github.com/dvbondoy/FlickOS/issues Download the ISO file, write it to flash-drive using Etcher and boot your computer to the USB.

The UDE-Project is creating a new Desktop Environment for X11. The entirely original look & feel is mainly optimized for efficient shell usage (as for programming, sysadministration etc). Offers max. screen space, stability and very low resource usage.

x9wm Linux - 32/64 Debian 7.2 "Wheezy" Stable with Google-Chrome / FireFox / Gnome-Commander / FireFox / Gedit / x9wm window manager / Gnome Display Manager 3 / MetaCity / ... more Integrated distraction free interface with simple / single click / sweep drag paradigm. Easy to customize menu / 1-click to any thing Instant always available system monitor top-bar Dec 04 2013 - update 1.02 1 New Desktop Wallpaper 2 Conky Top bar updated / Bottom bar space - for menu expansion in 1.03 3 New menu feature for window (max) maximize to save reshape for full-screen windows in any screen dimension 4 Code stub preped for automation and bottom menu control bar 5 Integrated into x9wm linux version "celestial" 1.2 Debian Wheezy w/ gnome-commander integrated 6 Gnome-Commander integrated and remote filesystems and WIndows SMB / CIFS partitions integrated 7 Gnome GEDIT now default text editor 8 qcalculate replaced xcalc as a much more fully features general purpose calculator / equation

Virtue is a virtual desktop manager for MacOS 10.4. It is based upon the work done by Rich Wareham on DesktopManager (http://desktopmanager.berlios.de/).