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The Big X Window Manager Guide
posted by
Amjith Ramanujam
on Fri 18th Jul 2008 01:19 UTC
A window manager in GNU/Linux is a piece of software which controls placement and appearance of windows in a graphical user interface in X. All the WMs listed
here
can easily be obtained through your distribution's respective repositories.
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