Desktop environments and window managers based on x11 or wayland. A small and efficient qt based window manager slackgrade0. This article compares variety of different x window managers. A window manager wm is system software that controls the. Tiling, originally based on dwm, includes xinerama support, very active. It was intended as a lightweight desktop environment based upon the qt. Im thinking about making a basic window manager for linux based off of x11 and using the qt toolkit. Laura michaels pages lightweight open source system software. Im considering switching to kwin as the window manager because i have enough ram to spare, it does compositing by default, has wayland support should i. Lxp is a collection of different pieces of gnu software icewm, xfe, idesk, etc. This is a list of every freely available window manager im aware of roughly 180 as of.
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