In computing, a dynamic
window manager
A window manager is system software that controls the placement and appearance of window (computing), windows within a windowing system in a graphical user interface. Most window managers are designed to help provide a desktop environment. They ...
is a
tiling window manager
In computing, a tiling window manager is a window manager with the organization of the screen often dependant on mathematical formulas to organise the windows into a non-overlapping frame. This is opposed to the more common approach used by stac ...
where windows are tiled based on preset layouts between which the user can switch. Layouts typically have a main area and a secondary area. The main area usually shows one window, but one can also change the number of windows in this area. Its purpose is to reserve more space for the more important window(s). The secondary area shows the other windows.
Tiling window managers that don't use layouts are called
manual tiling window managers. They let the user decide where windows should be placed.
X Window System
The following dynamic window managers are available for the
X Window System
The X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems.
X originated as part of Project Athena at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1984. The X protocol has been at ...
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* bluetile - A full featured window manager for the GNOME
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environment
* dwm[
* echinus
* evilwm
* ]fvwm
The F Virtual Window Manager (FVWM) is a virtual window manager for the X Window System. Originally a twm derivative, FVWM is now a window manager for Unix-like systems.
History
In 1993, during his work analyzing acoustic signatures for the ...
* larswm
* spectrwm
* xmonad
Qtile
Wayland Display Server
The following dynamic window managers are available for the Wayland Display Server:
dwl
Hyprland
Qtile
river
Vivarium
References
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