This window manager is yet another descendant of aewm. It has title bars, shading, a widget for resizing, automatic placement of windows (with the upper left corner at the current position of the mouse) as they open, and a list (by title) from which windows may be chosen for raising or un-iconizing. Some features are implemented in applets, not all of which work in this port. from the home page: It is somewhat ICCCM compliant (it knows what a transient window is, and catches client messages and knows the MIT-SHAPE). It does not try to look like any other known OS (though, some people tell me it looks like Mac OS, others say Amiga.) So, if you want a window manager that is sanely usable within the smallest constraints (and without you thinking you have an inept piece of software), then this is for you. from the README: As its name implies, alloywm is a quite exquisite, aesthetic little window manager for X11. The premise of this window manager is not to be over-bloated [...] to keep the interface out of a user's way [...] It is not very configurable [...] [...] you cannot click inside the window to give focus [...]