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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