mcwm — a minimalist window manager

Note well: mcwm is in maintenance mode and mostly dead. Since 2013 I use X only sparingly.

mcwm is a minimalist window manager for the X Window System written from scratch in C directly on top of XCB. It is a traditional floating window manager with a lot of features but without the bloat.

In mcwm all functions, including move and resize, are available from the keyboard but a pointing device can be used for move, resize and raise/lower.

Download

Download mcwm.

Development

Development has mostly stopped but the repo is here:

https://codeberg.org/mchack/mcwm

Features

Read more about the features.

Mailing list

There used to be a mailing list at mcwm (at) list.hack.org.

History

How mcwm came to be.

Presentation from the FSCONS 2011 conference.


Last updated: <2025-07-03 17:40:18 CEST>