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Fluxbox alternatives

  • Openbox

  • Openbox is a highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support.

    tags: window-manager gnome kde box fluxbox
  • Lumina Desktop Environment

  • Lumina is a lightweight, BSD licensed, standards-compliant desktop environment based upon Qt and Fluxbox. It is being developed on PC-BSD, and is being packaged for distribution on the PC-BSD package repository as well

    tags: desktop-environments pc-bsd
  • Bluetile

  • Bluetile is a tiling window manager for Linux, designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment. It provides both a traditional, stacking layout mode as well as tiling layouts where windows are arranged to use the entire screen without overlapping. Bluetile tries to make the tiling paradigm easily accessible to users coming from traditional window managers by drawing on known conventions and providing both mouse and keyboard access for all features.

    tags: gnome window-manager tile window-snapping aero-snap
  • Xmonad

  • xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell. In a normal WM, you spend half your time aligning and searching for windows. xmonad makes work easier, by automating this.

    tags: window-manager x-server tiling
  • spectrwm

  • spectrwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff. It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any configuration. It was written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be small, compact and fast.

    tags: bsd minimalistic openbsd window-manager
  • dwm

  • dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts. All of the layouts can be applied dynamically, optimising the environment for the application in use and the task performed.

    tags: window-manager x-server dynamic x-window-system
  • bspwm

  • bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning

    tags: window-manager tiling tile
  • qtile

  • Qtile is a full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written in Python.

    tags: window-manager tiling icewm windowmanager bluetile
  • wmii

  • wmii is a small, dynamic window manager for X11. It is scriptable, has a 9p filesystem interface and supports classic and tiling (acme-like) window management. It aims to maintain a small and clean (read hackable and beautiful) codebase.

    tags: window-manager x-server tiling
  • pekwm

  • pekwm is a window manager that once up on a time was based on the aewm++ window manager, but it has evolved enough that it no longer resembles aewm++ at all. It has a much expanded feature-set, including window grouping (similar to ion, pwm, or fluxbox), autoproperties, xinerama, keygrabber that supports keychains, and much more.

    tags: desktop-environments lightweight window-manager