awesome

awesome is ranked #4 of 64 in window management software on The Geeks Club. It runs on Linux. There is a free plan.

awesome plans and pricing

Awesome Free GNU GPLv2 license · X window manager awesomewm.org · 1 Oct 2026

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Free plan: Yes
Platforms: Linux
Layout presets: Yes
Application rules: Yes
Window grouping: Yes
Virtual desktop controls: Yes

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awesome

Product type: Awesome is a highly configurable framework window manager for X.
License: Awesome is licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license.
Target users: It is primarily targeted at power users, developers and people who want fine-grained control of their graphical environment.
Configuration: Awesome is designed as a framework window manager that is extensible using the Lua programming language.
Performance: Awesome uses the asynchronous XCB library and says this makes it less subject to latency than Xlib-based window managers.
Keyboard control: Everything in Awesome can be performed with the keyboard without using a mouse.
Multihead support: Awesome provides real multihead support through XRandR with per-screen desktops called tags.
Standards: Awesome implements EWMH, XDG Base Directory, XEmbed, Desktop Notification and System Tray standards.
Window organization: Windows can be assigned to one or more tags, and several tags can be displayed at the same time.
Integrations: Awesome supports D-Bus and offers Lua extensions for dynamic tagging, widgets, tabs and layouts.
Distribution support: Packages are available for distributions including Arch Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and others.
Latest stable release: The download page identifies version 4.3 as the latest stable release, released on 28 January 2019.
Source installation: The project recommends using the package supplied by your distribution because source builds can have LGI and Lua 5.1 package-search-path problems.
Release verification: The stable source archives are provided with GPG signatures.
Price from: Free

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Sources

awesomewm.org· checked 1 Oct 2026
awesomewm.org/download/· checked 1 Oct 2026
awesomewm.org/doc/· checked 1 Oct 2026
awesomewm.org/community/· checked 1 Oct 2026
github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/blob/master/docs/90-F· checked 1 Oct 2026