Yeahwm

Jul 20, 2023

Minimal X11 window manager with BeOS-like tabbed titles

YeahWM is a minimalist window manager for X11 based on evilwm and aewm. It features

  • Sloppy focus
  • BeOS-like tabbed titles, which can be repositioned
  • Support for Xinerama
  • Simple appearance
  • Good keyboard control
  • Creative usage of the mouse
  • Respects aspect size hints
  • Solid resize and move operations
  • Virtual desktops
  • “Magic” screen edges for desktop switching
  • Snapping to other windows and screen borders when moving windows
  • Small binary size ca. 23KB
  • Little resource usage


Checkout these related ports:
  • Xfce4 - Meta-port for the Xfce Desktop Environment
  • Xfce4-wm - Xfce's window manager
  • Xfce4-session - Xfce's session manager
  • Xfce4-panel - Xfce's panel
  • Xfce4-panel-profiles - Xfce's panel multiple layouts manager
  • Xfce4-desktop - Xfce's desktop manager
  • Xdgmenumaker - Generates XDG menus for several window managers
  • Xcompmgr - Sample X compositing manager
  • Wmx - Simple window manager based on wm2
  • Wmname - Prints/sets the window manager name property of the root window
  • Wmii - Dynamic, minimalist window manager for X11
  • Wmii-devel - Dynamic, minimalist window manager for X11
  • Wmconfig - Menu generation tool for X window managers
  • Wmanager - X11 window manager selector
  • Wmanager-addons - Helper scripts and documentation for the X11 window manager selector