Ion
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Ion is a tiling window manager for the X Window System, an early program that established the approach of dividing the screen into non-overlapping frames, grouping multiple windows as tabs within each frame, and operating everything from the keyboard alone. It was developed as the successor to PWM, is configured and extended with Lua scripts, and influenced many tiling window managers that came after it. Its development has since stopped, and alternatives such as awesome, i3, and xmonad are mainly used today.