---
name: "stumpwm"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "stumpwm"
version: "2:22.11-3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/stumpwm"
---

# stumpwm(1)

a Common Lisp window manager

## NAME

stumpwm - a Common Lisp window manager

## SYNOPSIS

**stumpwm**

## DESCRIPTION

Stumpwm is a tiling, keyboard driven X11 Window Manager written entirely in Common Lisp.

StumpWM attempts to be customizable yet visually minimal.  There are no window decorations, no icons, and no buttons.  It does have various hooks to attach your personal customizations, and variables to tweak.

## FILES

*~/.stumpwmrc*

## ENVIRONMENT

**LISP**

-

  Specify which Common Lisp implementation should be used.  Default to CLISP, other values are SBCL and CMUCL (all lowercase).  This can also be configured in *~/.stumpwmrc* as "**;debian=lisp**".

## SEE ALSO

[**clisp**(1)](/clisp/1.md), [**sbcl**(1)](/sbcl/1.md), [**cmucl**(1)](/cmucl/1.md)

The complete StumpWM documentation is available under the info subsystem, as well as the SLIME documentation.

## AUTHORS

StumpWM was principally written by Shawn Betts \<sabetts@vcn.bc.ca\> and is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2 or later.

This manual page was written by Luca Capello \<luca@pca.it\> for the Debian StumpWM package and is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2 or later.  Check /usr/share/doc/stumpwm/copyright for more information.