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AfterStep Applets - http://www.tigr.net/afterstep/
Home of the distribution of applications for the AfterStep window manager.

B4Step Window Manager - http://b4step.free.fr/
B4Step is a Window Manager running under X11R6 with a different way to manage window banners. It can use OpenGL routines for animations, is Gnome compliant and has also a sound support.

Blackbox - http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/
Light window manager, without all those annoying library dependencies.

Enlightenment - http://www.enlightenment.org/
A window manager based on Enlightenment Foundation Libraries.

Fast Light Window Manager - http://flwm.sourceforge.net/
Derived from wm2. Source code and binaries available.

Generic Window Manager Manual - http://tronche.com/gui/x/gwm/html-manual/
GWM is an X window manager you can program using LISP.

GNUstep.org - http://www.gnustep.org/
Official site of GNUstep: free implementation of NeXTStep/OpenStep specification.

http://badwm.sourceforge.net/ - http://badwm.sourceforge.net/
A minimalistic window manager for the X Window System.

http://evilwm.sourceforge.net/ - http://evilwm.sourceforge.net/
A minimalist Window Manager for the X Window System.

http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/ - http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/
A fast compact window manager based on the Blackbox, but offering more features.

http://icculus.org/openbox/ - http://icculus.org/openbox/
A standards compliant light-weight extensible window manager.

http://jdx.sourceforge.net/ - http://jdx.sourceforge.net/
A basic GUI windowing environment developed to support the Java programming language based on top of the X window system.

http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/ - http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/
Text-editorish, keyboard friendly window manager.

http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/pwm/ - http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/pwm/
Lightweight window manager for X11 that lets multiple client windows attach to the same frame.

http://pekwm.org/ - http://pekwm.org/
A good looking but lean windowmanager with support for dockapps, tabbed windows, automatic window manipulation, dynamic menus, key sequences.

http://sawfish.wikia.com - http://sawfish.wikia.com
An extensible window manager using a Lisp-based scripting language. All window decorations are configurable and all user-interface policy is controlled through the extension language. This is no layer on top of twm, but a wholly new architecture.

http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/wm2/ - http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/wm2/
Really minimal window manager

http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/wmx/ - http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/wmx/
wmx is also a window manager. Home page quote : "wmx is a window manager for X. It's based on wm2, and it retains a similar look and feel, but it's intended to provide an experimental vehicle for features that fall comfortably outside the scope of the manifesto for the original wm2."

http://www.lysator.liu.se/~marcus/amiwm.html - http://www.lysator.liu.se/~marcus/amiwm.html
X window manager that tries to look and feel like Amiga Workbench.

http://www.oksidizer.com/software/xd640.html - http://www.oksidizer.com/software/xd640.html
A lightweight graphical desktop environment for X-Window designed for older computers running at 640x480 screen resolution.

http://www.red-bean.com/~decklin/aewm/ - http://www.red-bean.com/~decklin/aewm/
A minimalistic X11 window manager.

http://www.vtwm.org/ - http://www.vtwm.org/
A virtual window manager for the X Window System. It is based on twm, and can be used just like twm. It provides multiple virtual screens, a 3D look, and lots of neat features.

http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~y-miyata/mlvwm.html - http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~y-miyata/mlvwm.html
Macintosh Like Virtual Window Manager.

LinuxPlanet Window Managers Page - http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/subjects/432/
Reviews of, and tutorials on, window managers under Linux, for beginners.

Official AfterStep Development site - http://afterstep.sourceforge.net/
Site dedicated to Development of the AfterStep Window Manager. Includes HTMLized sources, daily activity log, and TODOs.

Open Look Virtual Window Manager - http://www.plig.org/xwinman/olvwm.html
Based on olwm. Allows large virtual desktops.

Oroborus - http://www.oroborus.org/
A very minimalistic, but still fully configurable windowmanager.

Pie Menu Window Manager - http://www.crynwr.com/piewm/
Minimal window manager that uses pie menus.

Ratpoison Window Manager - http://ratpoison.sourceforge.net/
A simple Window Manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations.

ROX Desktop - http://roscidus.com/desktop/
A desktop environment with some features of RISC OS.

Small Window Manager - http://www.small-window-manager.de/
Minimal window manager intended for use with small screen sizes.

The Mass Interactive Desktop - http://5dwm.org/
A desktop environment that looks like an IRIX desktop.

The Official AfterStep Site - http://www.afterstep.org/
NeXTStep-like windowmanager

The Scheme Configurable (Constraints?) Window Manager - http://scwm.sourceforge.net/
A highly configurable X Window manager written and configurable with Guile Scheme. An absolute must for any hardcore Schemer who uses X Window. Now at version 0.99.6.1 with Gnome support, a CORBA interface, a complex constraint system for pseudointelligent window placement and management, extremely flexible decoration configurability, and a GUI configuration interface for non-Scheme hackers, plus an assortment of decoration themes.

The Stump Window Manager - http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/
A tiling, keyboard driven X11 Window Manager written entirely in Common Lisp.

Window Manager Icons Distribution - http://wm-icons.sourceforge.net/
a project to provide an efficient configurable icon distribution

Window Managers for X - http://xwinman.org/
Guide to window managers for the X Window System. Descriptions, screenshots and configuration files for all popular window managers, along with related resources, including a news and discussion area.

WindowLab - http://www.nickgravgaard.com/windowlab/
A small and simple window manager of novel design.

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