Tiling, Floating ยท Window Manager
echinus
echinus wm. Simple and lightweight tiling and floating window manager for X11
Developed by
Alexander Polakov, contributors
Alexander Polakov, contributors
Overview
About echinus
echinus wm. Simple and lightweight tiling and floating window manager for X11. Started as a dwm fork with easier configuration, echinus became full-featured reparenting window manager with EWMH support.
- easily configurable with one file in Xresources format
- supports minimal subset of EWMH to be usable with panels/pagers
- floating layout mimics traditional wm behaviour
- Xft (freetype) support
- multihead support with XRandr
- titlebars with configurable layout
- Packages: Frugalware Linux | Gentoo Linux | FreeBSD | OpenBSD | Mac OS X (Fink) | pkgsrc
- Links: echinus 0.4.9 (20 Sep 2011) git repo
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Notable features
Small dwm-inspired EWMH manager with text configuration,XRandR support and external panels
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