FrankenWM

FrankenWM is a small, dynamic tiling window manager for Xorg. It is written purely in C and configured using a header at compile-time. It has been forked from monsterwm ages ago, and while the configuration and usage still feels a lot like monsterwm, the underlying code is almost a complete rewrite. It is also used on the asynchronous XCB library as opposed to the synchronous Xlib, which monsterwm is based on, which makes it even faster.

Here is a quick overview of the features it brings:

• Tons of layouts, currently 13
• Gaps and borders that are configurable at runtime and optionally per desktop
• Proper minimizing using a desktop-specific client-stacks
• Real support for floating windows, for mouse-less desktops
• An optional scratchpad window that can be shown and hidden quickly from anywhere
• Configurable like almost nothing else, even with regexes to control window spawning
• Prepared for a panel of your choice by leaving configurable free space on the screen and outputting information to display on it
• And probably more which I forgot

Even other people like it (actual quotes):

sulami dude you made frankenwm
holy cow i love your work

~ dsplayer14

i could never really get into tiling window managers
im sure they make people efficient as fuck, but i like my dynamic wm
i spent way too much time configuring them, anyways. the only one i enjoy using is frankenwm

~ adam

great documentation, a fully commented config file + great man page got me up and running in a matter of minutes.

~ t1ngol

Oh dear lord, I love the guy who developed this WM. Such lovely documentation.

~ pateoigras

Get the source here. Pull / feature requests welcome, bug reports as well.