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9wm

A minimal X11 window manager that recreates the rio interface from Plan 9, including click-to-focus interaction and simple floating windows. It keeps the desktop surface intentionally small, leaving panels and launchers to other software, and is useful both as a lightweight manager and as a reference implementation. 9wm was written to emulate the rio window manager from Plan 9 on X11.

Background and availability

9wm was written to emulate the rio window manager from Plan 9 on X11. History source ↗

Project facts

protocol
X11
layout
stacking
Configuration
command line
tag
plan 9, minimal
Primary repository stars
205

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