Linux: list all available window managers

linux window-managers
JP19 picture JP19 · Nov 18, 2010 · Viewed 12.3k times · Source

How do I get a list of all available windows managers on a linux system (Of course this would mostly not be needed but - I don't have root permissions). Very difficult to search on Google as all results returned are for "list of window managers for linux".

Clarification: I am looking for a command that lists "All window managers that are installed" on the system that I am working on.

Interested to know it's distro dependent. My distro is RedHat.

cat /proc/version
(Linux version 2.4.21-40.ELsmp ([email protected]) (gcc version 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-53)) #1 SMP Wed Mar 15 13:46:01 EST 2006)

Answer

horsh picture horsh · Nov 18, 2010

It really depend on your particular distribution or OS. Say, on debian and ubuntu one uses:

$ update-alternatives --list x-window-manager
/usr/bin/twm
/usr/bin/fvwm2
/usr/bin/beryl
/usr/bin/beryl-xgl
/usr/bin/icewm
/usr/bin/kwin
/usr/bin/wmaker

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