evilwm - we sold our souls to the window manager

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).

Interested? Why not download and install it and then give it a go?

News

• 2007-06-18: Released 1.0.0. Basic Xrandr support (patch from Yura Semashko). Snap-to-border behaviour fixes.
• 2006-04-26: Released 0.99.25. Fixed bug with configure requests (rare), virtual desktop tracked separately for each screen, keyboard grabs reasserted when X11 keyboard map changes.
• 2006-02-20: Released 0.99.24. Added -nosoliddrag option.
• News Archive

Link to this page!

If you use and like this window manager, why not link to this page? It's fun and will make you popular with the ladies. Or the men. Or whichever social demographic you want to be popular with. Note: claims in this paragraph may not be true.

Updated 18 Jun 2007