What are the various Window Managers that is available to a user on ubuntu and how can I install them?
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What are the various Window Managers that is available to a user on ubuntu and how can I install them?
One WM Per Post please :)
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Description - KWin, the KDE window manager, featuring hardware-accelerated compositing effects.
Windows Manager Type - Compositing Windows Manager
Properties - Can have Little to Many Visual Effects, Less Efficient (More Power Hungry compared to Lightweight WMs), More Eye-Candy
Install - sudo apt-get install kde-window-manager
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Description - Highly configurable window manager for X. It is primarily targeted at power users, developers and any people dealing with every day computing tasks and want to have fine-grained control on its graphical environment. awesome is very extensible and programmable using the Lua programming language. It provides an easily usable and very-well documented API to configure and define the behavior of your window manager.
Windows Manager Type - Tiling Windows Manager
Properties - Lightweight, Increased Efficiency (Less Resource Hungry), Little to no Visual Effects
Install - sudo apt-get install awesome
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Compiz is one of the early compositing window managers for the X Window System that uses 3D graphics hardware to create fast compositing desktop effects for window management. The effects, such as a minimization effect and a cube workspace are implemented as loadable plugins. Because it conforms to the Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual standard, Compiz can be used as a substitute for the default Mutter or Metacity respectively when using GNOME Panel or KWin in KDE Plasma Workspaces.
compiz is the window manager in unity .so no need of any installation
Description - Metacity is a small window manager, using GTK+ to do everything. metacity is a "Boring window manager for the adult in you. Many window managers are like Marshmallow Froot Loops; Metacity is like Cheerios."
Windows Manager Type - Compositing Windows Manager
Properties - Can have Little to Many Visual Effects, Less Efficient (More Power Hungry compared to Lightweight WMs), More Eye-Candy
Install - sudo apt-get install metacity
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Description - Haskell. Windows are managed using automatic layout algorithms, which can be dynamically reconfigured. At any time windows are arranged so as to maximize the use of screen real estate. All features of the window manager are accessible purely from the keyboard: a mouse is entirely optional. Xmonad is configured in Haskell, and custom layout algorithms may be implemented by the user in config files. A principle of Xmonad is predictability: the user should know in advance precisely the window arrangement that will result from any action.
Windows Manager Type - Tiling Windows Manager
Properties - Lightweight, Increased Efficiency (Less Resource Hungry), Little to no Visual Effects
Install - sudo apt-get install xmonad
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XFwm
This is the windows manager that is used by the Xfce desktop environment.
To install xfce, sudo apt-get install xfce4
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If you want just the WM, sudo apt-get install xfwm4
To use in Unity-2d:
edit /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/ubuntu-2d.session
changing DefaultProvider-windowmanager=metacity
to DefaultProvider-windowmanager=xfwm4
Add file /usr/share/applications/xfwm4.desktop
to contain:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Xfwm4
Exec=xfwm4
NoDisplay=true
# name of loadable control center module
X-GNOME-WMSettingsModule=xfwm4
# name we put on the WM spec check window
X-GNOME-WMName=Xfwm4
# back compat only
X-GnomeWMSettingsLibrary=xfwm4
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=GNOME
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=xfwm4
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=general
X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=WindowManager
X-GNOME-Provides=windowmanager
X-GNOME-Autostart-Notify=true
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=xfwm4
(Instructions taken from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1877405)
Description - IceWm is a Window Manager for X Window System. It is fast and memory-efficient, and it provides many different looks including Windows'95, OS/2 Warp 3,4, Motif. It tries to take the best features of the above systems. Additional features include multiple workspaces, opaque move/resize, task bar, window list, mailbox status, digital clock.
Windows Manager Type - Stacking Windows Manager
Properties - Lightweight, Increased Efficiency (Less Resource Hungry), Little to no Visual Effects
Install - sudo apt-get install icewm
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Description - This is a window manager for X. It is similar in many respects to such popular packages as Window Maker, Enlightenment, and FVWM2. You might be interested in this package if you are tired of window managers that are a heavy drain on your system resources, but you still want an attractive and modern-looking interface.
Windows Manager Type - Stacking Windows Manager
Properties - Lightweight, Increased Efficiency (Less Resource Hungry), Little to no Visual Effects
Install - sudo apt-get install blackbox
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Description - Enlightenment is an advanced window manager for X11. Unique features include: a fully animated background, nice drop shadows around windows, backed by an extremely clean and optimized foundation of APIs.
Windows Manager Type - Stacking Windows Manager
Properties - Lightweight, Increased Efficiency (Less Resource Hungry), Little to no Visual Effects
Install - sudo apt-get install e17
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Description - Fairly similar to blackbox, from which it is derived, but has been extended with features such as pwm-style window tabs, configurable key bindings, toolbar, and an iconbar. It also includes some cosmetic fixes over blackbox.
Windows Manager Type - Stacking Windows Manager
Properties - Lightweight, Increased Efficiency (Less Resource Hungry), Little to no Visual Effects
Install - sudo apt-get install fluxbox
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Description - The windows manager for Xfce4. It is designed to run with the rest of Xfce4 but makes a capable window manager for GNOME or KDE.
Windows Manager Type - Compositing Windows Manager
Properties - Can have Little to Many Visual Effects, Less Efficient (More Power Hungry compared to Lightweight WMs), More Eye-Candy
Install - sudo apt-get install xfwm4
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Description - Mutter is a small window manager, using GTK+ and Clutter to do everything.
Windows Manager Type - Compositing Windows Manager
Properties - Can have Little to Many Visual Effects, Less Efficient (More Power Hungry compared to Lightweight WMs), More Eye-Candy
Install - sudo apt-get install mutter
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Description - evilwm is based on aewm by Decklin Foster. It further maximises screen real-estate and provides a good set of keyboard controls.
Windows Manager Type - Stacking Windows Manager
Properties - Lightweight, Increased Efficiency (Less Resource Hungry), Little to no Visual Effects
Install - sudo apt-get install evilwm
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Description - Low resource Window manager ideal for older PCs. It uses a minimum of external libraries, thus very little memory, includes virtual screens, menubar and root-menu popup.
Windows Manager Type - Stacking Windows Manager
Properties - Lightweight, Increased Efficiency (Less Resource Hungry), Little to no Visual Effects
Install - sudo apt-get install jwm
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Since I can't create pmore answers because of a limit of how many answers per user I leave this here for anybody to cut and paste into another answer so it can be 1 WM per answer:
Description - Openbox works with your applications, and makes your desktop easier to manage. This is because the approach to its development was the opposite of what seems to be the general case for window managers. Openbox was written first to comply with standards and to work properly. Only when that was in place did the team turn to the visual interface.
Windows Manager Type - Stacking Windows Manager
Properties - Lightweight, Increased Efficiency (Less Resource Hungry), Little to no Visual Effects
Install - sudo apt-get install openbox
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Description - dwm is a minimalistic window manager. It manages windows in tiling and floating modes. Either mode can be applied dynamically, depending on the application in use and the task performed.
Windows Manager Type - Tiling Windows Manager
Properties - Lightweight, Increased Efficiency (Less Resource Hungry), Little to no Visual Effects
Install - sudo apt-get install dwm
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Description - larswm is a hack for 9wm, adding automatic window tiling, virtual desktops and many other features designed to make it a very efficient user environment. It uses very little CPU time and virtual memory.
Windows Manager Type - Tiling Windows Manager
Properties - Lightweight, Increased Efficiency (Less Resource Hungry), Little to no Visual Effects
Install - sudo apt-get install larswm
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Description - ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no rodent dependence. It is largely modelled after GNU Screen.
Windows Manager Type - Tiling Windows Manager
Properties - Lightweight, Increased Efficiency (Less Resource Hungry), Little to no Visual Effects
Install - sudo apt-get install ratpoison
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Description - StumpWM is a window manager written entirely in Common Lisp. It attempts to be highly customizable while relying entirely on the keyboard for input. You will not find buttons, icons, title bars, tool bars, or any of the other conventional GUI widgets.
Windows Manager Type - Tiling Windows Manager
Properties - Lightweight, Increased Efficiency (Less Resource Hungry), Little to no Visual Effects
Install - sudo apt-get install stumpwm
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Description - wmii is a dynamic window manager for X11, which is highly customizable and usable with keyboard and mouse. It supports conventional, tabbed and tiled window management with low memory usage. It is highly modularized and uses an inter-process communication interface which is oriented on the 9p protocol of plan9.
Windows Manager Type - Tiling Windows Manager
Properties - Lightweight, Increased Efficiency (Less Resource Hungry), Little to no Visual Effects
Install - sudo apt-get install wmii
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Description - FVWM is a powerful ICCCM2 compliant multiple virtual desktop window manager for the X Window System. FVWM requires relatively little memory.
Windows Manager Type - Virtual Windows Manager
Properties - Virtual Screens, More Space to Work per Display, Easier to handle Multiple Windows
Install - sudo apt-get install fvwm
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