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Comparison of X window managers

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This article compares variety of different X window managers. For an introduction to the topic, see X Window System.

General information

Name Type Language Initial release Latest release License Memory (MB)[1]
Version Date
9wm Stacking C 1994 MIT 0.4
Stacking C MIT
awesome Dynamic C, Lua 2007-09-18 GPL-2.0-or-later 9
Berry[citation needed] Stacking C 2018-08-24 2019-09-21 MIT
Blackbox Stacking C++ MIT 3
Tiling C 2013-04-23 BSD-2-clause[2]
Compiz Compositing C (OpenGL) 2006 MIT
cwm Stacking C 2004-07-10 ISC
dkwm Dynamic C 2019-12-01 1.9-1 2023-06-18 MIT/X
dwm Dynamic C 2006-07-14 MIT 1
Enlightenment Compositing C 1997 BSD-2-clause
evilwm[3] Stacking C 2000 aewm/9wm[4]
EXWM[citation needed] Tiling Emacs Lisp GPL-3.0-or-later
Fluxbox Stacking C++ 2001-09-12 MIT 16
FLWM Stacking C++ (FLTK) 1998 GPL-2.0-or-later
FVWM Dynamic C 1993-06-01 GPL 4
herbstluftwm Dynamic C++ 2011-10-02 BSD-2-clause
i3 Dynamic C 2009-03-15 BSD-3-clause 3
IceWM Stacking C++ 1997 LGPL-2.0-only 4.5
Ion Tiling C, Lua 2000 LGPL-2.1-only[lower-alpha 1]
JWM Stacking C 2003 MIT 3
KWin (KDE) Compositing C++ (Qt) GPL 41
Matchbox Stacking C 2007-04-13 GPL-2.0-or-later
Metacity (GNOME 2) Compositing C, C++ (GTK+) 2002-10 GPL-2.0-or-later
Mutter (GNOME 3+/MeeGo) Compositing C (Clutter) 2011-04 GPL-2.0-or-later 18.6
Motif Window Manager (mwm) Stacking C 1989 LGPL-2.1-or-later
Openbox Stacking C 2002-09-18 GPL-2.0-or-later 7
PekWM Stacking C++ GPL-2.0-or-later 5.3
Stacking C GPL
Qtile Dynamic Python 2008-08-31 MIT 2
Ragnar Tiling C 2023-05-15 1.3.0 2023-06-12 GPL
Ratpoison Tiling C 2000-12-04 GPL-2.0-or-later 1
Sawfish Stacking Lisp, C 2000-01-01 GPL-2.0-or-later 3.1
SithWM Stacking C GPL
Dynamic C ISC
steamcompmgr[citation needed] Compositing C[5] 2013 BSD-2-clause[6]
StumpWM Tiling Common Lisp GPL-2.0-or-later
twm Stacking C 1987 MIT-open-group
MIT-CMU
XFree86-1.0 		1.2
Ultrix Window Manager (uwm) Stacking C 1985 Similar to BSD licenses
Window Maker Stacking C 1997 GPL-2.0-or-later 7
Wingo[citation needed] Dynamic Go WTFPL
WMFS[citation needed] Tiling C BSD-3-clause
wmii Dynamic C 2005-06-01 MIT
Xfwm (Xfce) Compositing C, C++ (GTK+) 1996 GPL, LGPL 70
xmonad Dynamic Haskell 2007-03-06 BSD-3-clause 2
worm Dynamic Nim 2021-12-12 0.32 2023-2-3 MIT
Name Type Language Initial release Latest release License Memory (MB)
Version Date
  1. ↑ LGPL-2.1-only with naming restrictions on modified versions.

Features

Name Configurable titlebar buttons Graphical configuration Hotkeys ICCCM/EWMH compliant Panel for window switching Tabbed windows Themeable
9wm No No No Yes No No
No No No Yes Yes No No
awesome Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Berry[citation needed] No Yes[lower-alpha 1] Yes[lower-alpha 2] No No No Yes
Blackbox No Depends[lower-alpha 3] Depends[lower-alpha 4] Yes[lower-alpha 5] Yes No Yes
No No Yes[lower-alpha 6] Partial No No No
Compiz Yes Yes Yes Yes Depends[lower-alpha 3] Yes Yes
cwm no titlebar buttons No Yes No No Yes
dkwm
dwm no titlebar buttons No Yes Yes No Yes
Enlightenment Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes
evilwm[3] no titlebar buttons No Yes Partial[3] No No Yes
EXWM[citation needed] No No Yes Partial No Depends Yes
Fluxbox Yes Depends[lower-alpha 3] Yes Yes[8] Yes Yes Yes
FLWM No Yes No[lower-alpha 7] No No
FVWM Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes[9] Depends[lower-alpha 3][10][11]
herbstluftwm no titlebar buttons No Yes Yes No Yes Yes
i3 no titlebar buttons No Yes Yes No Yes Yes
IceWM Yes Depends[lower-alpha 3] Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Ion no titlebar buttons No Yes No Yes Yes
JWM Yes Depends[lower-alpha 3] Yes EWMH Yes No Yes
KWin (KDE) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Matchbox EWMH compliance No No Yes
Metacity (GNOME) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Mutter (GNOME/MeeGo) Yes Yes Yes Yes Gnome Shell No Yes
Motif Window Manager (mwm) No No Yes No[lower-alpha 8]
Openbox Yes Depends[lower-alpha 3] Yes Yes Depends[lower-alpha 3] No Yes
PekWM Yes No Yes Partial No Yes Yes
Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Qtile Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Ragnar
Ratpoison No No Yes No No No No
Sawfish Yes Yes Yes Partial Yes primitive Yes
SithWM no titlebar buttons No Yes No No Yes
no titlebar buttons No Yes Yes No No solid colors
steamcompmgr[citation needed] No No Yes No No No
StumpWM No No Yes No No No No
twm Yes No Yes Yes No solid colors
uwm
Window Maker No Yes Yes Partial Yes Yes Yes
Wingo[citation needed] Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes
WMFS[citation needed] Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
wmii Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Xfwm (Xfce) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes
xmonad Yes No Yes Yes / ? Depends[lower-alpha 3] Yes Yes
worm
Name Configurable titlebar buttons Graphical configuration Hotkeys ICCCM/EWMH compliant Panel for window switching Tabbed windows Themeable
  1. ↑ Via CLI client.
  2. ↑ Via CLI client and third party (e.g. sxhkd).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Via third party.
  4. ↑ With bbkeys.
  5. ↑ Through 0.65 / from 0.70.[7]
  6. ↑ With sxhkd.
  7. ↑ There is a window list menu.
  8. ↑ Can change colours.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "A Memory Comparison of Light Linux Desktops" (in en-US). l3net - a layer 3 networking blog. 2013-03-17. https://l3net.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/a-memory-comparison-of-light-linux-desktops/. 
  2. ↑ "bspwm License". 2 November 2021. https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm/blob/master/LICENSE. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "evilwm - standards support". http://www.6809.org.uk/evilwm/standards.shtml. "evilwm releases following and including version 1.1.0 follow the EWMH standard." 
  4. ↑ "evilwm.txt". https://www.6809.org.uk/evilwm/doc/evilwm.txt. 
  5. ↑ "steamos-compositor debian source package". /steamos-compositor-1.35/src/steamcompmgr.c. https://repo.steampowered.com/steamos/pool/main/s/steamos-compositor/steamos-compositor_1.35.tar.xz. 
  6. ↑ "steamos-compositor amd64 debian package". /usr/share/doc/steamos-compositor/copyright. https://repo.steampowered.com/steamos/pool/main/s/steamos-compositor/steamos-compositor_1.35+bsos1_amd64.deb. "License: BSD-2-clause" 
  7. ↑ "NetWM - Blackbox". http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/NetWM. "Blackbox releases up to and including version 0.65.0 follow the ICCCM standard, while 0.70 and later follow EWMH." 
  8. ↑ "Tables". http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/docs/ewmh-support.html. 
  9. ↑ FvwmTabs
  10. ↑ Fvwm Themes
  11. ↑ FVWM-Crystal

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