Open-source alternatives to Octopus Window Manager

bspwm is an X11 tiling window manager that organizes application windows into non-overlapping rectangular tiles using binary space partitioning. It treats the screen as a tree of rectangular regions to automatically manage window placement and is compliant with Extended Window Manager Hints. The project is distinguished by a socket-based window controller, which allows layout changes and configuration settings to be updated via a communication socket rather than through a built-in configuration file. It provides independent window tree management for each detected monitor, treating every dis

advanced dynamic window manager

Fast light window manager

A window manager designed for speed, usability, and consistency

An X11 window manager designed for maximum efficiency

Blackbox - an X11 Window manager

A fully-featured window manager written in Go.

tiny but monstrous tiling window manager

Emacs X Window Manager

A dynamic, tag-based window manager written in Nim

Openbox Window Manager (OpenboxWM)

An ICCCM & EWMH compliant X11 reparenting, dynamic window manager, written in C++

An ICCCM & EWMH compliant X11 reparenting, dynamic window manager, written in Rust

Useless window manager - Not a window manager!!! Just window manager experiments...

An itsy bitsy floating window manager (220~ sloc!).

Gala Window Manager for elementary OS and Pantheon

A toy X11 window manager that bounces windows around - https://jvns.ca/blog/2019/11/25/challenge--make-a-bouncy-window-manager/

A very stupid window manager.

Fluxbox Window Manager

a small window manager for X11 based originally off aewm

FVWM version 3 -- the successor to fvwm2

A small, scriptable window manager, with a 9P filesystem interface and an acme-like layout.