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Similar programatic abilities can be found in the following window managers:

- wmii - via the 9fs interface - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/wmii

- ion3 / notion - via lua bindings - http://notion.sourceforge.net/

- guile-wm - similar goals as stumpwm, with scheme - https://github.com/mwitmer/guile-wm

Of all of these notion is the most "out of the box" complete WM, whereas guile-wm is the most immature.

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Also xmonad with haskell - http://xmonad.org/

Xmonad is a bit historically related to StumpWM, actually; a number of early users had been using StumpWM for the greater programmability over Ratpoison, but weren't all that keen on Common Lisp, so when dons decided to write a WM in Haskell... I was one of them, and even ported over some of the more popular extensions like search engine plugins (which were themselves originally modeled on 'surfraw', a package of shell scripts written mostly by a fellow named Julian Assange; everything is connected).

If you're on OS X there is always Amethyst [1], previous discussion [2]. I use it everyday.

On a tangent: For automation and window management (via Lua), check out the awesome Hammerspoon [3].

[1] http://ianyh.com/amethyst/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8768022 [3] http://www.hammerspoon.org

The maintainer of Amethyst is an awesome person too. Amethyst is honestly the single thing that makes OS X tolerable for me.

That said, it's nowhere near as good as a real tiling WM. There are still the technical limitations of the OS X system to fight.

Slightly different game, but you can also interact with i3, a very mature WM, using Chicken Scheme: http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/i3

Another one, awesomewm - uses Lua - https://awesome.naquadah.org

Oh, I miss ion3 on osx.

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