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List of Tiling Window Managers For X

• awesome - a dwm derivative with window tiling, floating and tagging, written in C and configurable and extensible in Lua. It was the first WM to be ported from Xlib to XCB, and supports D-Bus, pango, XRandR, Xinerama.
• Bluetile - based on xmonad: "I think of xmonad more as a library for writing tiling window managers. The default installation provides a minimal tiling window manager (the standard configuration), but you are really expected to "write" (configure) your own ... from the building blocks. ... The Bluetile project ... is now really just another xmonad configuration. A configuration that focuses on making the tiling paradigm easily accessible to users coming from traditional window managers."
• dwm - allows for switching tiling layouts by clicking a textual ascii art 'icon' in the status bar. The default is a Larswm-like main area + stacking area arrangement, represented by a = character glyph. There is also a non-tiling floating layout similar to *evilwm which permits windows to be moved and resized, represented by a fish-like ><>. Third party patches exist to add a golden section-based Fibonacci layout, a grid layout, a gapless grid layout, and a horizontal stacking arrangement. The keyboard-driven menu utility "dmenu", developed for use with dwm, is used with other tiling WMs like xmonad, and sometimes also with other "light-weight" software like Openbox and uzbl.
• Echinus - "a window manager for X in spirit of dwm." Like dwm it supports managing windows in floating, tiled and maximized layouts. All the configuration is made via config file in Xresources format, so it is not necessary to recompile echinus every time you change something. Echinus supports a small subset of EWMH to be compatible with external panels and pagers. It draws a border around windows and also an optional title bar. The goal of development is a small, fast window manager without features not strictly related to window management, e.g. menus, panels, etc.
• euclid-wm - a minimalist, tiling window manager that aims to combine the ease of use of automatic tiling with the flexibility of manual tiling. It also has a per workspace "stack" for minimized windows. It uses vimlike key-bindings by default.
• Grid plugin - adds keyboard tiling shortcuts and layouts to the Compiz compositing window manager.
• herbstluftwm - designed to be fully customizable through the use of its '"herbstclient" utility and Bash scripts.
• i3 - a built-from-scratch window manager, based on wmii. It has vi-like keybindings, and treats extra monitors as extra workspaces, meaning that windows can be moved between monitors easily. Allows vertical and horizontal splits, and parent containers. It can be controlled entirely from the keyboard, but a mouse can also be used.
• Ion - combines tiling with a tabbing interface: the display is manually split in non-overlapping regions (frames). Each frame can contain one or more windows. Only one of these windows is visible and fills the entire frame.
• Ion2 - a keyboard friendly window manager.
• kahakai - a dual mode WM offering both tiling and stacking capabilities.
• Larswm - implements a form of dynamic tiling: the display is vertically split in two regions (tracks). The left track is filled with a single window. The right track contains all other windows stacked on top of each other.
• Lucca WM
• Lunchbox - Lunchbox is a dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It allows windows to be resized by pushing them against the edge of the screen. In a step away from the desktop metaphor, all programs are given a separate workspace and unique arrangement of windows and any window can become the desktop. Lunchbox offers scalable tab replacement called the Title Menu which allows any window to be swapped with any other window that fits, allowing very fine-grained control over the layout of the screen. Finally, although many windows default to tiling, any window can be changed to a Floating mode and dialog boxes default to it.
• Matchbox - tiles system trays and a "single" window, targeting embedded and mobile environments where multiple tiled windows don't fit well. It does not permit overlapping main windows (although, like many tiling window managers, dialog windows are "special", with stacked management), but it accomplishes this by showing only one window, rather than literally tiling of multiple windows. This can be considered as a single-tile layout.
• Musca - features manual tiling, multiple screen support, virtual desktops and mouse or keyboard navigation.
• plpwm - a configuration of the plwm window manager toolkit that provides tiling.
• Qtile - written and configured in Python.
• Ratpoison - A keyboard-driven GNU Screen for X.
• Spectrwm - minimalist tiling window manager with dynamic xrandr & xinerama support, previously known as scrotwm.
• shellshape - tiling window manager extension for GNOME Shell, inspired by bluetile.
• Stumpwm - a keyboard driven tiling window manager supporting multiple displays (e.g. xrandr) that can be customized on the fly in Common Lisp.
• subtle
• Tritium window manager
• WMFS
• wmii - developed in parallel to dwm by the same author.
• xmonad - an extensible WM written in Haskell.