FLWM

Flwm is my attempt to combine the best ideas I have seen in several window managers. The primary influence and code base is from wm2 by Chris Cannam. Primary features are:

• Occupies as little screen space as possible.
  • The border and titles are as thin as I could possibly make them, while still allowing resizing edges.
  • Sideways titlebars allow 100% vertical usage of screen.
  • Snap-to-edge snaps the inside as well as outside of the borders to the screen edge.
  • Maximum width removes the 3D resize borders off the left and right of the window, so only waste is the flat titlebar area at left.
  • Windows with no label do not have a titlebar either, just resize edges.
  • Programs can resize window to fullscreen and get what they want (the window filling the screen) with no unpredictable positioning and without raising the window.
• Independent maximize buttons for width & height.
• The "taskbar" (or iconbox), "start menu", Alt+Tab window switching, multiple desktop switching, "panel", and "start menu" are all merged into a singe pop-up menu that takes zero space when not being used. Same popup menu can be brought up by clicking on desktop, right-clicking on window border, or Alt+Tab.
• Designed to be point-to-type. If a window grabs the focus the mouse moves to it so this is never inconsistent. This really works, try it!
• Designed to work with smaller, overlapping windows so that programs can finally take advantage of multiple windows, rather than being forced to make a big single "mdi" window. Primarily this means windows do not click to top if you click inside them. In addition Flwm obeys any attempt by the program to resize and/or move a window.
• Understands Motif, KDE, and Gnome window manager hints, and works with SGI programs that assumme 4DWM.
• Really small and fast code.