evilwm - we sold our souls to the window manager

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Minimalist window manager for the X Window System.

'Minimalist' doesn't mean it's too bare to be usable; just that it omits a lot of the stuff that make others unusable. Some features:

• No title bar, no icons.
• Simple 1-pixel (configurable) border.
• Reasonable EWMH support.
• Good keyboard control, including repositioning and maximise toggles.
• Virtual desktops.
• Snap-to-border.
• Small binary.
• 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 30 Jan 2014