The Waimea window manager has been around since 2004.
It has however been recently brought back in the mainstream through work on github:
https://github.com/bbidulock/waimea by somebody nicknamed "bbidulock".
To give you an idea of how it is different from other WMs, this is the 1st paragraph
of his introduction:
(Point form is my doing.)INTRODUCTION
The design goal for waimea is to create the most efficient desktop
working environment available.
To achieve this, waimea is a
-- fast and
-- highly customizable
-- virtual multiple desktop window manager.
It has a very advanced style engine with features like
-- blackbox style support,
-- pixmap style support and
-- transparent textures.
Text can be rendered
-- double buffered using both
-- X core fonts and Xft fonts.
Waimea also includes a
-- fast lightweight menu system
-- with dynamic menus support.
The
-- built-in action configuration system
makes waimea the most configurable window manager available.
It allows the user to set up waimea to behave as
-- any other window manager
-- or in new ways never before possible.
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You'll find below the pet archive for the 64-bit version of waimea, and some scripts for
generation of its menu. Also a 64 version of the bmpanel2 task-and-tray bar, since
waimea does not have one.
(The 32-bits version of waimea is available a few posts down.)
It was originally I intended the 64-bit compilation of waimea-170901 as a Christmas gift
to Phil B. for its excellent work on xenialPup, and to the Puppyists using xenialPup64.
However, some other forum members have showed an interest, and even suggested
this independent thread be opened for it.
If you wish to share past or current experiences of waimea, to suggest any improv-
ements that would be nice to have for it, the "best" environment for it IYO, themes
compatible with it (from the blackbox WM or elsewhere), etc., etc., this is the place!
Welcome! Let's give Puppy's WM by default, jwm, some worthy competition!