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[edit]
- ^ LGPL-2.1-only with naming restrictions on modified versions.
Features[edit]
Name | Configurable titlebar buttons | Graphical configuration | Hotkeys | ICCCM/EWMH compliant | Panel for window switching | Tabbed windows | Themeable |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
9wm | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | |
aewm[citation needed] | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
awesome | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Berry[citation needed] | No | Yes[a] | Yes[b] | No | No | No | Yes |
Blackbox | No | Depends[c] | Depends[d] | Yes[e] | Yes | No | Yes |
bspwm[citation needed] | No | No | Yes[f] | Partial | No | No | No |
Compiz | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Depends[c] | Yes | Yes |
cwm | no titlebar buttons | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | |
dwm | no titlebar buttons | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |
Enlightenment | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
evilwm[12] | no titlebar buttons | No | Yes | Partial[12] | No | No | Yes |
EXWM | No | No | Yes | Partial | No | No | Yes |
Fluxbox | Yes | Depends[c] | Yes | Yes[48] | Yes | Yes | Yes |
FLWM | No | Yes | No[g] | No | No | ||
FVWM | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[49] | Depends[c][50][51] |
i3 | no titlebar buttons | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
IceWM | Yes | Depends[c] | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Ion | no titlebar buttons | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
JWM | Yes | Depends[c] | 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 |
mwm (Motif Window Manager) | No | No | Yes | No[h] | |||
Openbox | Yes | Depends[c] | Yes | Yes | Depends[c] | No | Yes |
PekWM | Yes | No | Yes | Partial | No | Yes | Yes |
PlayWM[citation needed] | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Qtile | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
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 | |
spectrwm[citation needed] | 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 | Yes | Yes |
xmonad | Yes | No | Yes | Yes / ? | Depends[c] | Yes | Yes |
Name | Configurable titlebar buttons | Graphical configuration | Hotkeys | ICCCM/EWMH compliant | Panel for window switching | Tabbed windows | Themeable |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "A Memory Comparison of Light Linux Desktops". l3net - a layer 3 networking blog. 2013-03-17. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
- ^ https://github.com/9wm/9wm/releases/tag/1.4.2.
- ^ "aewm". Archived from the original on 11 October 2019. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
- ^ "Release 4.3". 28 January 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
- ^ "Release 0.77". 12 May 2021. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
- ^ "Release 0.9.10". 2 August 2020. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
- ^ "bspwm License". GitHub. 2 November 2021.
- ^ "[compiz] Compiz 0.9.14.1 released". 28 November 2019.
- ^ "cwm". Archived from the original on 8 June 2015.
- ^ https://git.suckless.org/dwm/commit/d39e2f3441fe18aba8d1a62c08918a411ec6f237.html; publication date: 7 January 2022.
- ^ https://www.enlightenment.org/news/2022-02-10-enlightenment-0.25.3; retrieved: 6 April 2022.
- ^ a b c "evilwm - standards support".
evilwm releases following and including version 1.1.0 follow the EWMH standard.
- ^ http://www.6809.org.uk/evilwm/doc/ChangeLog.
- ^ "evilwm.txt".
- ^ "Exwm version 0.26". 13 November 2021. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
- ^ "Fluxbox 1.3.7 - Bam! Zero Bugs!!11!". 8 February 2015. Archived from the original on 24 January 2022.
- ^ http://flwm.sourceforge.net.
- ^ https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm3/releases/tag/1.0.4.
- ^ Michael Stapelberg (3 November 2021). "i3 v4.20.1 released". Retrieved 3 November 2021.
- ^ https://github.com/ice-wm/icewm/releases/tag/2.9.7.
- ^ "The Ion window manager (2000-2009)". Archived from the original on 20 March 2022.
- ^ https://github.com/joewing/jwm/releases/tag/v2.4.1.
- ^ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/tags/v5.24.3.
- ^ https://git.yoctoproject.org/matchbox-window-manager/tag/?h=1.2.2.
- ^ https://github.com/GNOME/metacity/releases/tag/3.44.0.
- ^ "mutter 42.0"; author name string: Florian Müllner; publication date: 12 March 2022; retrieved: 30 March 2022.
- ^ "42.0". 12 March 2022. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
- ^ "Motif 2.3.8 Source Code". 5 December 2017.
- ^ "Openbox:Changelog".
- ^ https://github.com/pekwm/pekwm/releases/tag/release-0.2.1.
- ^ https://github.com/qtile/qtile/releases/tag/v0.21.0.
- ^ "ratpoison-1.4.9 has been released"; author name string: Jeremie Courreges-Anglas; publication date: 4 April 2017; retrieved: 12 November 2020.
- ^ https://github.com/SawfishWM/sawfish/releases/tag/sawfish-1.13.0.
- ^ https://sithwm.darkside.no/sn/?M=D.
- ^ https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm/releases/tag/SPECTRWM_3_4_1.
- ^ "steamos-compositor debian source package". /steamos-compositor-1.35/src/steamcompmgr.c.
- ^ "steamos-compositor amd64 debian package". /usr/share/doc/steamos-compositor/copyright.
License: BSD-2-clause
- ^ "StumpWM 20.11 'Aphrodite Giant' Released!". 27 November 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
- ^ "Release 20.11". 27 November 2020. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
- ^ "[ANNOUNCE] twm 1.0.12". 2 April 2022.
- ^ https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/twm/-/tags/twm-1.0.12.
- ^ http://www.windowmaker.org/news/.
- ^ https://github.com/xorg62/wmfs/releases/tag/201003; retrieved: 31 January 2018.
- ^ https://code.google.com/archive/p/wmii/downloads.
- ^ "Xfce 4.16 released".
- ^ https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/releases/tag/v0.17.0.
- ^ "NetWM - Blackbox". Archived from the original on 2007-10-01. Retrieved 2008-03-29.
Blackbox releases up to and including version 0.65.0 follow the ICCCM standard, while 0.70 and later follow EWMH.
- ^ "Tables".
- ^ FvwmTabs Archived 2009-08-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Fvwm Themes
- ^ FVWM-Crystal
External links[edit]
- Comparison of extensible window managers compares window managers "extensible" by user scripts, like Sawfish, xmonad, etc.
- The Comprehensive List of Window Managers for Unix