Floating, Stacking · Window Manager
9wm
9wm is an X11 window manager inspired by the Plan 9 window manager 8½, also known as rio. It provides a very simple and clean user interface. It is click-to-type. It uses the X11 font system (which, unfortunately, means no Unicode support). 9wm does not provide virtual desktops, customization, key bindings, EWMH support, or compositing. It does not allocate…
David Hogan, current maintainers
Overview
About 9wm
9wm is an X11 window manager inspired by the Plan 9 window manager 8½, also known as rio. It provides a very simple and clean user interface. It is click-to-type. It uses the X11 font system (which, unfortunately, means no Unicode support).
9wm does not provide virtual desktops, customization, key bindings, EWMH support, or compositing. It does not allocate any colors (if you disable COLOR), which will be great news if you are stuck in 1993.
It is a great place to start if you are interested in writing a window manager from scratch: many folks have done exactly this.
9wm is distributed under an MIT License.
Notable features
Faithfully reproduces Plan 9's rio interaction model using a tiny border-only interface and a three-button root menu.
Gallery
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