evilwm - we sold our souls to the window manager

A minimalist window manager for the X Window System.

'Minimalist' here doesn't mean it's too bare to be usable - it just means it omits a lot of the stuff that make other window managers unusable. Here is a list of features:

• No window decorations apart from a simple 1 pixel border.
• No icons.
• Good keyboard control, including repositioning and maximise toggles.
• Solid window drags (optional - may be slow on old machines).
• Snap-to-border support (command line option).
• Virtual desktops (compile time option).
• Small binary size (even with everything turned on).

Interested? Why not download and install it and then give it a go?

News

• 2007-06-18: Released 1.0.0. Basic Xrandr support (patch from Yura Semashko). Snap-to-border behaviour fixes.
• 2006-04-26: Released 0.99.25. Fixed bug with configure requests (rare), virtual desktop tracked separately for each screen, keyboard grabs reasserted when X11 keyboard map changes.
• 2006-02-20: Released 0.99.24. Added -nosoliddrag option.
• News Archive

Updated 16 Jul 2008