Echinus (window manager)

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echinus

echinus-0.2.7 environment
Developed by Alexander Polakov
Latest release 0.2.7 / April 2008
Written in C
OS Unix-like
Genre Window manager
License MIT License
Website [1]

echinus is a dynamic window manager for X11 supporting managing windows in floating, tiled and maximized layouts based on dwm. All the configuration is made via config file in Xresources format. So you don't need to recompile echinus every time you change something. Echinus supports a small subset of EWMH to be compatible with external panels and pagers. It draws a border around windows and also an optional titlebar. The goal of development is a small, fast window manager without features not strictly related to window management (menus, panels, etc.)

[edit] Drawbacks

  • no gui configuration
  • limited theming support
  • no Xinerama
  • no statusbar

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