Awesome

Jul 20, 2023

Highly configurable, next generation framework window manager

awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast, small, dynamic, heavily extensible using the Lua programming language, and licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license.

It is primarly targeted at power users, developers and any people dealing with every day computing tasks and who want to have fine-grained control on theirs graphical environment.



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  • Xfce4-panel - Xfce's panel
  • Xfce4-panel-profiles - Xfce's panel multiple layouts manager
  • Xfce4-desktop - Xfce's desktop manager
  • Xdgmenumaker - Generates XDG menus for several window managers
  • Xcompmgr - Sample X compositing manager
  • Wmx - Simple window manager based on wm2
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  • Wmii - Dynamic, minimalist window manager for X11
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