Introduction

Window Maker is an X11 window manager originally designed to provide integration support for the GNUstep Desktop Environment, although it can run stand alone. In every way possible, it reproduces the elegant look and feel of the NeXTSTEP user interface.

Window Maker on first run

The key features of Window Maker are:

Stacking window manager with ability for semi-automatic tiling management

Lightweight and blazing fast

Easy to use

Highly configurable

Ability to bind keyboard shortcut to wide set of actions

Dynamic menu entries

Small, dockable apps (dockapps)

Human readable config files and GUI prefs application

Free and open source

Active community from all of the world

See features section for more. In screenshots section you can see examples of how users set up their desktops.

Download

Many distributions already have Window Maker included in their software repositories, so it could be installed directly from there. Other sources are listed below:

Latest source of stable version is 0.95.9, released on 04.04.2020. See the NEWS section for more information.

Source code is also available through the git repository

Bugs

Report bugs at https://github.com/window-maker/wmaker/issues.