| herbstluftwm | c | manual    | IPC (anything) |
| awesomewm    | c | automatic | lua            |
| wmx          | ? | N/A       | N/A            |
| wm2          | ? | ?         | N/A            |
| dwm          | c | automatic | c              |
| spectrwm     | c | automatic | text           |
| kde          | ? | N/A       | graphical      |
| gnome        | ? | N/A       | graphical      |
| openbox      | ? | N/A       | xml            |
| adwm         | c | automatic | c?             |