The Window Manager And Wayland Compositor Report

2021The table is maintained, pretty much daily. The rest of this content is very old (particularly reviews).

I use (2021) Openbox on my desktop, with the assistance of (see Helper Applications) 'dmenu', 'fbpanel' or 'tint2', and WorkRave.

• The Comprehensive List of Window Managers and Wayland Compositors for Unix - includes links to reviews of some of them.
• Bloodlines - who borrowed whose code and ideas
• Memory Usage 32-bit - how much memory and how many libraries does each WM use? For 32-bit Intel
• Memory Usage 64-bit - how much memory and how many libraries does each WM use? For 64-bit (a Core 2 Quad in this case)
• Helper Applications - applications that make using X easier (or more interesting)
• Window Manager Languages - if you have a language of choice, look here to find out what WM is written in that language.
• Review Format - my WM reviews are linked from the table, this is the format of the review
• Definitions - if in doubt, read this
• My Biases - Introduction and biases: understanding my biases will definitely help in reading the reviews
• Standards (largely ignored by most WMs)
• Bibliography
• Flyer for Penguicon Presentation (200804): Page 1, RTF and Page 2, PNG. Meant to be printed double-sided, may not make too much sense if you weren't there.
• Thanks - where I've got my help