herbstluftwm - A Manual Tiling Window Manager for X11 | Linux Today

herbstluftwm – A Manual Tiling Window Manager for X11

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Martins Divine Okoi
Mar 8, 2018

herbstluftwm is an open-source tiling window manager with which you can manually organize your screens into mutually non-overlapping frames. i.e app windows will be stacked above each other instead of the typical overlapping window settings.

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