mlvwm
Macintosh-like Virtual Window Manager (official repo) (by morgant)
shod
mouse-based window manager that can tile windows inside floating containers (by phillbush)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
mlvwm
Posts with mentions or reviews of mlvwm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-25.
- Mlvwm (Macintosh-Like Virtual Window Manager)
- HelloSystem – OS with original Mac philosophy with a modern architecture
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So I installed OpenBSD 7.0 on my iMac G3 and well no desktop environment will fully install because of missing packages… even compiling CDE was a no go because KSH93 is broken on macppc. At least it’s a step in the right direction as far as getting anything graphical working.
You could try giving https://github.com/morgant/mlvwm a try to compile, also extra mac flare :D
- Did everyone try mlvwm?
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Running MLVWM (Mac System 7, OS8/9 style window manager) on Ubuntu via WSL and vsxsrv
git clone https://github.com/morgant/mlvwm.git cd mlvwm xmkmf -a && make && sudo make install
- Ask HN: Can anyone remember a Classic macOS-like desktop for Linux?
- Mlvwm: Macintosh-Like Virtual Window Manager
shod
Posts with mentions or reviews of shod.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-11.
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[OC] XFiles: A modular X11 file browser (WIP)
WM is shod with default theme.
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shod: an acme-like window manager that tile windows inside floating containers
shod is my attempt to mimic Plan9's acme behavior in a window manager.
- [shod] yet another shod showcase
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[shod] tiled shaded windows with tabs
This image shows three features of shod:
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[shod] main features
Shod is now stable and ready for others to use!
What are some alternatives?
When comparing mlvwm and shod you can also consider the following projects:
fvwm3 - FVWM version 3 -- the successor to fvwm2
NWM - NWM is a simple window manager for linux which uses Xlib for managing windows
ports - Read-only git conversion of OpenBSD's official cvs ports repository. Pull requests not accepted - send diffs to the ports@ mailing list.
emwm - Enhanced Motif Window Manager (MWM fork). Supports Xinerama, Xrandr, UTF-8/Xft, and relevant EWMH.
voidrice - My dotfiles (deployed by LARBS)
classic-wm - Remember when windows had sharp edges?
sdorfehs - A tiling window manager
coma - My minimalistic X11 window manager. || This is a read-only mirror, pull requests are ignored.
mlvwmrc - Macintosh-like Virtual Window Manager (MLVWM) configuration files
devoidwm - A simple X11 window manager