oxwm

A dynamic window manager for X11, written in Zig and configured in Lua. It started from dwm and kept going.

What it is

oxwm tiles your windows, gives you tags instead of workspaces, and draws its own status bar. If you have used dwm you already know how it feels.

The difference is the config. There is no config.h and nothing to recompile. You edit ~/.config/oxwm/config.lua, press Mod+Shift+R, and the change is live.

What you get

Six layouts: tiling, dwindle, grid, monocle, scrolling and floating
Tags, with multi-tag views and windows on more than one tag
A built-in bar with RAM, battery, clock, shell and systray blocks
Keychords, so Mod+Space then T can be a binding
Window rules by class, instance or title
Multi-monitor support with per-monitor tags
Gaps, smart gaps and borders
Type definitions for the Lua language server

Showcase

Setups from oxwm users on Arch, CachyOS, FreeBSD and Debian.

oxwm on Arch Linux with btop and fastfetch

oxwm on CachyOS with a custom bar and a floating terminal

oxwm on Debian showing the keybind overlay

License

oxwm is released under the GPL v3. The source is on GitHub.