# ch11ng/exwm

Emacs X Window Manager

Repository: https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/exwm
License Family: other
Last push: 2024-02-05T14:50:24+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4065, "days_push": 940, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2822, forks 129 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:24.058196+00:00)

## What it is
EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager) turns Emacs into a full X11 window manager, allowing users to manage X windows as Emacs buffers. This original repository has moved to emacs-exwm/exwm after the original author became unreachable.

## Use cases
- manage X11 windows entirely from Emacs
- keyboard-driven tiling window manager
- treat X applications as Emacs buffers
- unified Emacs-based desktop environment

## When to choose
- you live in Emacs and want a window manager integrated with it
- you prefer keyboard-driven window management on Linux

## When to avoid
- you need a Wayland window manager
- you want a conventional mouse-driven desktop
- you are not an Emacs user

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: desktop-framework
- domain: desktop-applications, developer-tools, operating-systems
- platform: -
- tags: emacs, x-window-manager, tiling-window-manager, keyboard-driven, window-management, linux, x11

## Member repositories
- ch11ng/exwm (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:24.058196+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:38:18.148171+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:24.058196+00:00, sha deead39d4773)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.