tvtwm is a version of twm which incorporates virtual desktops, similar
to vtwm and swm. It is nearly identical to twm until you specify a
virtual desktop size in your .[tv]twmrc file, which is when you start
getting the benefits of this window manager.
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.
WindowLab is a small and simple window manager, based on aewm, of
novel design. WindowLab maintains the illusion of direct manipulation
by constraining the mouse pointer when appropriate, i.e. when a window
cannot be dragged any further in one direction.
It's click-to-focus, shares its window depth policy with the Amiga,
and has a window resizing/reshaping method similar to that of 8 1/2
from Plan 9.
Wmakerconf is a configuration tool for the famous window manager
Window Maker. It is based on the GTK+ and Imlib libraries.
WManager is a windowmanager manager. Quite a tongue twister, eh?
It "manages" your windowmanagers by letting you choose from your
favorites on starting up X.
WMFS (Window Manager From Scratch) is a lightweight tiling window
manager for X. It can be configured with a configuration file (made with
LibConfuse), it supports Xft (FreeType) fonts and EWMH hints wm
standards.
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).
w9wm is a quick & dirty hack based on 9wm, the wonderful "template"
window manager made by David Hogan.
9wm is really nice for all day use (I mean, a large Emacs window
covering the whole screen and a terminal to use Lynx and browse the
web ;-)) provided that you do not have a large number of windows on
your screen. But in some occasions it is not the case (ie. you have
to telnet to 4-5 remote machines), which is painful with 9wm.
This need for virtual screens motivated this about 50 lines hack.
w9wm brings support for virtual screens (provided you use the second
button, aka middle button to select one virtual screen) as well as for
key bindings (to switch from one window to another).