Reviewing Window Managers

[Paul King]

> Where I could use some help ...
> 
> - history: I was a relatively early starter with Linux (1994) but I
> think there are people on this list who were using Unix 20 years prior
> to that.  Feel free to take a look at
> http://www.gilesorr.com/papers/otherwm2007/images/owm.png in all its
> ludicrous glory and tell me what I've missed.  It's an attempt to
> document influence between WMs.  It's also big and unwieldy.
> 
> - tracking down WMs I've missed: please look at the following list and
> see if any WMs you know are missing.

Check Sourceforge again. Golem does not appear to be dead.

Paul King

> 
> - 3dwm (.org domain for sale)
> - 5Dwm (http://5dwm.org/home.html)
> + 9wm / w9wm
> + aewm
> + AEWM++ aka Sapphire (deb+"goodies") (http://freshmeat.net/projects/sapphire/)
> - ahwm (http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~ahiorean/ahwm/ latest 2002)
> - amaterus (http://www.taiyaki.org/amaterus/index.en.html but source
> has vanished)
> - amiwm (deb)
> - anarchy (http://proteus.freeshell.org/anarchy/)
> - B4Step (http://b4step.free.fr/)
> - BadWM (http://badwm.sourceforge.net/ "not actively maintained")
> - beryl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl_%28window_manager%29)
> + Blackbox
> - blwm (http://directory.fsf.org/blwm.html Portugese)
> - clementine (http://freshmeat.net/projects/clementine/)
> - clfswm (http://freshmeat.net/projects/clfswm/)
> - compiz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiz)
> + CTWM
> - cwm (http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=cwm)
> - dwm
> - Eclipse (http://common-lisp.net/project/eclipse/)
> - ede (http://ede.sourceforge.net/)
> + Enlightenment
> - epiwm (http://www.nongnu.org/epiwm/ latest 2001)
> - EvilPoison (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EvilPoison)
> + EvilWM
> - expocity (http://www.pycage.de/#expocity - mixed metacity+expose)
> - failsafewm (http://freshmeat.net/projects/failsafewm/)
> - Firebox (http://freshmeat.net/projects/firebox/)
> + Fluxbox
> + FLWM
> - FOX WM (http://freshmeat.net/projects/fxwm/)
> - fpcbol (http://sourceforge.net/projects/fpcbol but is it a WM?)
> - Framer (needs very outdated Eiffel)
> - fvwm
> + FVWM2
> - fvwm95
> - fvwm-crystal (http://freshmeat.net/projects/fvwm-crystal/)
> + Golem (http://freshmeat.net/projects/golem/)
> - gwm
> - GwML (site dead)
> + HackedBox
> - HaZe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HaZe)
> + Heliwm (http://www.cc.rim.or.jp/~hok/heliwm/)
> + Ice WM
> - Integrity (http://integrity.sourceforge.net/)
> - Interface WM (http://freshmeat.net/projects/interfacewm/)
> + Ion
> - JD4X http://jdx.sourceforge.net/
> - JWM (Joe's Window Manager)
> - Kahakai
> - Karmen (http://freshmeat.net/projects/karmen/)
> - kwin (KDE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWin)
> - larswm (deb)
> - lwm (deb http://freshmeat.net/projects/lwm/)
> - Luminocity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminocity)
> - maewm
> - Manix (http://freshmeat.net/projects/manix-de/)
> + Matchbox
> - mavosxwm (http://mavosxwm.sourceforge.net/ dead)
> + Metacity
> - Metisse (http://insitu.lri.fr/metisse/)
> - miwm (http://miwm.sourceforge.net/basic.php)
> - mlvwm (http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~y-miyata/mlvwm.html Apple clone, RIP 2000)
> - mosquito WM (http://freshmeat.net/projects/mosquito/) - Multi-Cursor WM
> (http://freshmeat.net/projects/multicursor-wm/ WEIRD) + MWM - novawm
> (http://novawm.sourceforge.net/ No latest 2002 alpha) - olvwm (deb) - olwm (deb)
> - openbox - orion (http://orion.antidesktop.net/cgi-bin/wiki) - oroborus
> (http://www.oroborus.org/) - pawm (http://www.pleyades.net/pawm/) - pekwm -
> perlwm (http://freshmeat.net/projects/perlwm/ too old but a lot of people would
> be interested?) - phluid (http://freshmeat.net/projects/phluid/ - probably dead)
> - piewm - PLWM, PointLess WM (http://plwm.sourceforge.net/) - Puppet (WM for
> Escher Java lib http://escher.sourceforge.net/) + PWM - pywm - qlwm
> (http://qlwm.get.to/ based on Qt) - QuarkWM
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/quarkwm) + QVWM
> (http://freshmeat.net/projects/qvwm/) + Ratpoison - ROX Desktop
> (http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/static.html) - sapphire (see aewm++) -
> sawfish - scwm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scwm) - sithwm + stumpwm - subtle
> (http://freshmeat.net/projects/subtle/) - swm (Solbourne
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swm, http://xwinman.org/archive/swm/) - swm
> (http://www.small-window-manager.de/) + Tab Window Manager - tinywm - toyd
> (http://www.toyd.org/ pre-alpha) - treewm + TrsWM
> (http://freshmeat.net/projects/trswm/) - tvtwm
> (http://freshmeat.net/projects/tvtwm/) - twindy
> (http://freshmeat.net/projects/twindy/) - twm - ude
> (http://freshmeat.net/projects/ude/ = uwm under aptitude) - uwm ("Universal"
> http://xwinman.org/uwm.tar.gz) - vtwm (deb http://freshmeat.net/projects/vtwm/)
> - w9wm - waimea - weewm - Whim (http://whim.linuxsys.net/site/0) - Whimsy
> (http://freshmeat.net/projects/whimsy/) - wimpwm
> (http://uebb.cs.tu-berlin.de/~magr/wimpwm/) + Windowlab + WindowMaker (deb) +
> WM2 - wmg (http://sourceforge.net/projects/wmg/) - wmi (predecessor to wmii) -
> wmii (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wmii) - WMX (with WM2) - wwm (Weird WM
> http://www.joerch.org/wwm/ dead) + xfce-wm or xfwm
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfwm) - XIGE (site dead) - XPDE - xswm
> (http://freshmeat.net/projects/xswm/ eXtreme Speed) (based on evil) - xwem
> (http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/xwem emacs) - yawm (yawm.org dead) - yeahwm
> (http://freshmeat.net/projects/yeahwm/) - Zeta desktop environment
> (http://freshmeat.net/projects/zde/) - zwm (http://freshmeat.net/projects/zwm/)
> 
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