Window Manager Recommendations
Users recommend and discuss various lightweight, simple, tiling, and non-tiling window managers like StumpWM, Ratpoison, FVWM, WindowMaker, and others, often in response to a post about minimal or alternative WMs.
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There is a window manager called stumpwm like that.
You already can if you're not picky about window manager features
You might find Rio interesting:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_(windowing_system)
Will this one not try to be a window manager?
Try Niri or PaperWM. A scrolling window manager.
Not trying to be a window manager is pretty much the reason it exists!
There are window managers like that for linux. E.g. http://notion.sourceforge.net/ or https://github.com/pekdon/pekwm or http://www.fluxbox.org/
Too bad they didnt switch to windowlab. Now that is a lightweight window manager. Amiga style window management!
For those who wish their window manager was more like screen I recommend strongly recommend the ratposion WM.
What are some DEs / window managers you think are quite simple and let you focus?