Top 15 x11-wm Open-Source Projects

• qtile

  104 4,602 9.4 Python

  :cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)

  

Project mention: Show HN: Arbitrarily nestable tabs and splits for the qtile window manager | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-06

• xmonad

  76 3,242 7.8 Haskell

  The core of xmonad, a small but functional ICCCM-compliant tiling window manager

  

Project mention: Installing Xmonad on Arch | /r/xmonad | 2023-06-05

The official guide and the archwiki do say that it's okay to just install it via pacman, but I've also found some issues on the official repo that strongly suggest against installing via pacman and to use stack instead, as sometimes pacman breaks dependencies.

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• penrose

  15 1,202 7.6 Rust

  A library for writing an X11 tiling window manager (by sminez)

Project mention: Is there a way to create a WM with winit? | /r/rust | 2023-07-12

writing an X11 window manager is ... extremely tedious. have a look at https://github.com/sminez/penrose .

• Hypr

  2 984 3.9 C++

  Hypr is a tiling window manager written in modern C++.

  

• xmonad-contrib

  50 572 8.7 Haskell

  Contributed modules for xmonad

  

• fvwm3

  13 481 9.4 C

  FVWM version 3 -- the successor to fvwm2

  

Project mention: WM/DE that *looks* old, but is still functional | /r/archlinux | 2023-06-16

• sdorfehs

  5 268 4.9 C

  A tiling window manager

Project mention: What is objectively the best window manager? | /r/openbsd | 2023-05-12

I use sdorfehs, which is a fork of ratpoison.

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• mlvwm

  7 248 0.0 C

  Macintosh-like Virtual Window Manager (official repo)

Project mention: Mlvwm (Macintosh-Like Virtual Window Manager) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-26

• mwm

  2 237 3.5 Rust

  My Window Manager

Project mention: Making a Wayland Compositor and WM using Rust | /r/rust | 2023-05-21

Yeah, I already started developing it. I started with Smallvil and then I also found mwm

• shod

  5 163 8.2 C

  mouse-based window manager that can tile windows inside floating containers

• pgwm

  5 67 4.9 Rust

  A minimal tiling x11 window manager

Project mention: I reinvented another wheel, linux threads. | /r/rust | 2023-07-11

Ps. I don't at all endorse using tiny-std, I think it's correct but I wouldn't be surprised if some nasty bugs are hiding somewhere in there. Although I do use it for my WM pgwm which can now be build on stable, assuming you're running Linux with io-uring, a wrote a bit about that change here but didn't post about it then. The main benefit of tiny-std being tiny binaries that link statically.

• coma

  1 40 3.9 C

  My minimalistic X11 window manager. || This is a read-only mirror, pull requests are ignored.

• NWM

  2 18 0.0 C

  NWM is a simple window manager for linux which uses Xlib for managing windows

• RMB

  3 18 7.8 C++

  Mouse Panning for Ryujinx(https://ryujinx.org/)

• rwm

  2 10 0.0 Rust

  The Rusty WIndow Manager

Project mention: Inter-process Communication between two programs on Linux. | /r/rust | 2023-07-12

I have done the exact same thing but for X11, feel free to take a look at the project if you want here, I was very happy with the communication between the client and the wm.

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• Is there a way to create a WM with winit?

  1 project | /r/rust | 12 Jul 2023

• I reinvented another wheel, linux threads.

  3 projects | /r/rust | 11 Jul 2023

• What is objectively the best window manager?

  1 project | /r/openbsd | 12 May 2023

• [Media] shrs: a shell that is configurable and extensible in rust

  10 projects | /r/rust | 1 May 2023

• Its not opinion. Its fact

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