evilwm - we sold our souls to the window manager
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A minimalist window manager for the X Window System.
'Minimalist' here doesn't mean it's too bare to be usable - it just means
it omits a lot of the stuff that make other window managers unusable.
Here is a list of features:
- No window decorations apart from a simple 1 pixel border.
- No icons.
- Good keyboard control, including repositioning and maximise toggles.
- Solid window drags (optional - may be slow on old machines).
- Snap-to-border support (command line option).
- Virtual desktops (compile time option).
- Small binary size (even with everything turned on).
- Reasonable EWMH support (though not yet
fully compliant).
- Configuration file read on startup.
Interested? Why not download and install it and
then give it a go?
News
- 2011-07-03: Released 1.1.0.
- 2009-10-09: Pre-release 1.1.0pre8
available for testing.
- 2009-03-30: Released 1.0.1. Fixes a
problem while quitting with recent versions of X.org.
- 2007-06-18: Released 1.0.0.
Basic Xrandr support (patch from Yura Semashko).
Snap-to-border behaviour fixes.
- News Archive
Updated 5 Jul 2011