Window manager

The window manager Article description::manages the creation, manipulation, and destruction of on-screen windows. Each system with an X server installed should have a window manager.

Classification
Windows managers can be dynamic, stacking, or tiling in their behavior.


 * Stacking window managers behave analogously to pieces of paper on a physical desktop, they can be stacked on top of one another, with the one at the top of the stack being the one with which the user sees and interacts.
 * Tiling window managers represent windows as tiles, or split views, with windows displayed next to one another, but with none of the windows overlapping.
 * Dynamic window managers are window managers that can dynamically switch between the previous two paradigms.

Available software
Here are some window manager packages available in Gentoo:

feh and imv can be used for setting the desktop background for tiling window managers like i3. See a full and current list of window managers by issuing (requires ):

External resources

 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_X_window_managers - Wikipedia's extensive list comparing features of window managers.