Window Maker
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
1recommend
0warn against
Apr 7, 2026first mention
Sep 2, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I used to use https://www.windowmaker.org/ as my X11 window manager and one of the features I really liked was the ability to shrink a window to an icon”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Data: window-maker.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 5
“my Window Maker shortcut for showing the Run dialog”
“My main WM is Window Maker”
“I used to deal with windowmaker”
“before I settled into Afterstep and soon afterwards Windowmaker”
“I used to use https://www.windowmaker.org/ as my X11 window manager and one of the features I really liked was the ability to shrink a window to an icon”