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Ion (based on PWM) is a new kind of window manager that brings a text-editorish, keyboard friendly user interface to window management. Modern GUIs are unusable. Overlapping windows are hard to manage, especially from the keyboard, and the user often ends up in a jungle. Not to mention the application programs, which are even worse. Mouse-based search-and-click interfaces are slow - keyboard is fast having learnt the commands. Ion (the last three letters of vision =-) was written as an example and an experiment of something presumably better (just the window manager, though). Ion simply divides the screen into frames that take the whole screen. Big displays have so much space that this is convenient and smaller displays couldn't show more than one window at a time anyway. The frames can be split and growing the size of one will shrink others. Alike in PWM, clients can be moved between frames and multiple clients can be attached to one frame. With Ion you will hardly ever have to touch the mouse again for navigation between windows and the windows are always in order.

mcwm is a minimalistic floating window manager for the X Window System. It is built directly on top of XCB, the C binding for the X11 protocol. It doesn't use the Xlib API at all. All functions are available from the keyboard, but the mouse can be used for moving,resizing and raise/lower.

LibDockApp is a library that provides a framework for developing dockapps. It provides functions and structures to define and display command-line options, create a dockable icon, handle events, etc.

Olvwm (OPEN LOOK virtual window manager) is an ICCCM compliant window manager supplied for use with the XView toolkit. It is derived from olwm, the OPEN LOOK window manager supplied with the XView release. This version of olvwm is based on version 3 of the XView release.

PWM is a rather lightweight window manager for X11. It has the unique feature that multiple client windows can be attached to the same frame. This feature helps keeping windows, especially the numerous xterms, organized. Being a lightweight window manager with emphasis on usability, PWM does not have all the features that one might expect from a window manager. Those features are simply unnecessary. PWM does not provide pixmapped themes or other bloated eye candies but has a clean and simple look inspired by BeOS and Motif. There are no icons and frames cannot be iconified, only "shaded". Only One True (pointer) focus mode is supported: sloppy. PWM does not even have titlebar buttons and may not be the easiest window manager to get into, most Good Things are not. PWM does have workspaces, menus and Window Maker dockapp support. It has pretty good keyboard support and almost all the functionality is configurable.

This is a window manager based on the Qt library. It supports icons, keyboard controls, and virtual screens. It comes with two applets: a biff-like mail indicator and a clock, both designed to be swallowed by its toolbar. Caution! Killing this window manager will kill some of your X clients (applications). Trevor Johnson

sWM was written for small computer system with very little amount of memory and small screen sizes. It was written to speed up working with laptops or even PDA's. You need a minimum of about 12k of diskspace (minimal mode). It uses even less memory than a rxvt.

wm2 is a window manager for X. It provides an unusual style of window decoration and as little functionality as I feel comfortable with in a window manager. wm2 is not configurable, except by editing the source and recompiling the code, and is really intended for people who don't particularly want their window manager to be too friendly. wm2 provides: * Decorative frames for your windows. * The ability to move, resize, hide and restore windows. * No icons. * No configurable root menus, buttons or mouse or keyboard bindings. * No virtual desktop, toolbars or integrated applications.

Ratmen is a simple program for displaying a menu in a window. On selection is may either run a program or simply write something on standard out. It is inspired by, and is similar in function to, 9menu and ratmenu but is muchly improved. It includes: User settings in X resources, long and short option names (using getopts), scrollable menus (if they do not fit on screen), both mouse and keyboard support, exiting on unfocus, and a decent manpage.

wmx is another window manager for X. It is based on wm2 and provides a similarly unusual style of window decoration; but in place of wm2's minimal functionality, it offers many of the features of more conventional managers, often in the most simplistic implementations imaginable. wmx is, however, still not configurable except by editing the source and recompiling the code.