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Qtile is simple, small, and extensible. It's easy to write your own layouts, widgets, and built-in commands. Qtile is written and configured entirely in Python, which means you can leverage the full power and flexibility of the language to make it fit your needs.

This is a small application (using GTK+) which lets you select your window manager. It looks for a file named .selectwmrc in the user's directory which contains a list of window managers. When you start X it should show a list which lets you choose your window manager (by double clicking on it with the mouse or with the arrow keys and the return or space key).

Peksystray is a small system tray (also called notification tray) designed for all lightweight window managers that support docking. As more and more applications use a small icon in the system tray to provide some additional functionality and information, it becomes useful for everyone to have common access to them. While "heavy" window managers (Gnome, KDE...) come with a system tray embedded in the rest of the desktop, lighter window managers (Window Maker, Fluxbox ...) do not have this feature. Peksystray is a very simple and light implementation of a system tray for any window manager supporting docking, conforming to the System Tray freedesktop.org standard. Peksystray provides a window where icons will automatically add up depending on the requests from the applications. Both the size of the window and the size of the icons can be selected by the user. If the window is full, it can automatically display another window in order to display more icons. Peksystray has been named after PekWM.

treewm is a window manager that tries to implement a new concept. In addition to the client windows the user can create desktops which can themselves contain windows and desktops. By arranging the windows in such a tree the user is able to manage his tasks efficiently treewm is feature-rich, flexible and provides a powerful concept. However, treewm's look is is rather puristic, and its feel is not always intuitive, but with a bit of practise it should be very effective to use. Short feature list (some of them are quite unique among window managers): - Allows to create desktops and to arbitrarily move windows between desktops - Many options (such as sticky, autoresize, always on top, or the focus or raise policy) can be set for any desktop or window - Can be fully customized using the configuration file - Has a very powerful (somewhat vi-like) command mode, and can be controlled from shell scripts via a FIFO - Icons can be placed on desktops that can execute arbitrary commands - Only uses very common libraries, in particular it doesn't require GTK, Qt, or anything like that

Vtwm is a twm variant with a virtual desktop. Unlike its older cousin tvtwm, vtwm is under active development, and supports a number of relatively new features, such as configurable Motif-like decorations.

Window Maker is an X11 window manager designed to give additional integration support to the GNUstep Desktop Environment. In every way possible, it reproduces the elegant look and feel of the NeXTstep[tm] GUI. It is fast, feature rich, easy to configure, and easy to use. In addition, Window Maker works with GNOME and KDE, making it one of the most useful and universal window managers available.

Wmconfig is a free menu generation tool for various X window managers. It is easy-to-use and uses a simple configuration file layout.

Obmenu is a menu editor designed for Openbox. It's easy to use, allowing you to get the most out of the powerful Openbox menu system, while hiding the xml layout from the user. It can install dynamic menus (pipe menus), such as Gnome menus or a quick-navigator. You can also use the obxml module to easily write pipe menus of your own in Python.

WMII is a small, dynamic window manager for X11. It supports both classic and tiling (acme-like) window management with extended keyboard, mouse, and 9p filesystem based remote control. It replaces the workspace paradigm with a new tagging approach and is highly scriptable (with plain shell or Python and even Chicken). Its minimalist philosophy attempts to not exceed 10.000 lines of code (including all shipped utilities and libraries), to enforce simplicity and clarity (read: it is hackable and beautiful).

WeeWM (Wee Enhanced Environment) is a fast and light window manager for XFree86. Everything can be done with a keyboard. It is customizable, and has dock management, smart window placement, virtual desktops, and more.