What different WM's are available on ubuntu? [closed]
What are the various Window Managers that is available to a user on ubuntu and how can I install them?
One WM Per Post please :)
Linked Question:
- What kinds of desktop environments and shells are available?
Solution 1:
KWin (kde-window-manager)
Description - KWin, the KDE window manager, featuring hardware-accelerated compositing effects.
Windows Manager Type - Compositing Windows Manager
Properties - Can have Little to Many Visual Effects, Less Efficient (More Power Hungry compared to Lightweight WMs), More Eye-Candy
Install - sudo apt-get install kde-window-manager
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Solution 2:
awesome
Description - Highly configurable window manager for X. It is primarily targeted at power users, developers and any people dealing with every day computing tasks and want to have fine-grained control on its graphical environment. awesome is very extensible and programmable using the Lua programming language. It provides an easily usable and very-well documented API to configure and define the behavior of your window manager.
Windows Manager Type - Tiling Windows Manager
Properties - Lightweight, Increased Efficiency (Less Resource Hungry), Little to no Visual Effects
Install - sudo apt-get install awesome
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