lwm is a window manager for X that tries to keep out of your face. There are no icons, no button bars, no icon docks, no root menus, no nothing: if you want all that, then other programs can provide it. There's no configurability either: if you want that, you want a different window manager; one that helps your operating system in its evil conquest of your disc space and its annexation of your physical memory.

News

2016-02-12

lwm 1.2.4 has been released. This release fixes some bugs in handling fullscreen windows.

2013-07-09

lwm 1.2.3 has been released. This release fixes a few minor issues currently patched by Debian. The source is now hosted on github at https://github.com/jamesfcarter/lwm.

2009-11-24

lwm 1.2.2 has been released. This release fixes some minor bugs, improving performance and fixing frame-less window placement issues.

2004-09-30

lwm 1.2.1 has been released. This release fixes problems with very long window titles, and corrects an issue with IRIX 6.5.

2003-12-08

lwm 1.2.0 has been released. This release represents a new major, stable release for lwm. Although not yet entirely bug free, this version contains considerably fewer bugs than the last stable version (1.01).

2003-12-03

lwm 1.1.7 has been released. This release further improves the focus model in click-to-focus mode, and fixes two long-standing bugs that caused fullscreen mode to behave strangely, and slightly missplaced windows following a ConfigureRequest event. Unless serious problems arise in the next few days, a new stable version of lwm will be released.

2003-11-29

lwm 1.1.6 has been released. This release fixes a number crash-inducing bugs, and changes the window hiding and unhiding behaviour to improve click-to-focus mode.

2003-08-01

lwm 1.1.5 has been released. This release fixes a number of bugs relating to focus and window stacking that became apparent only in the new click-to-focus mode, and adds edge resistance to make moving windows to the edge of the workarea easier.

2003-07-29

lwm 1.1.4 has been released. This release fixes bugs in no_xmkmf_makefile (for those not using Imake), and adds a click-to-focus mode (although the enter-to-focus scheme remains the default).

2003-07-10

lwm 1.1.3 has been released. This release fixes a number of bugs and improves EWMH workarea support.

2003-07-01

lwm 1.1.2 has been released. This release fixes the "tk menu" bug, and improves EWMH support. Text in the window titles and popup menu has been internationalised (or internationalized :-), and the pointer now changes as it moves over certain window decorations.

2003-06-28

lwm 1.1.1 has been released. This is the first release in the new development tree and adds the following features:

Session management support

Extended Window Manager Hints support

Although neither of these features are fully implemented, there is enough support there to allow lwm to be used in a modern desktop environment such as GNOME.

2003-06-27

lwm gets a new web page and a new maintainer. There is new development aiming to make lwm work properly with modern desktop environments.