An X window manager is a window manager that runs on top of the X Window System, a windowing system mainly used on Unix-like systems. Unlike MacOS Classic...
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This article compares variety of different X window managers. For an introduction to the topic, see X Window System. LGPL-2.1-only with naming restrictions...
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A window manager is system software that controls the placement and appearance of windows within a windowing system in a graphical user interface. Most...
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Enlightenment, also known simply as E, is a compositing window manager for the X Window System. Since version 0.20, Enlightenment also supports Wayland...
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tiling window manager is a window manager with the organization of the screen often dependant on mathematical formulas to organise the windows into a...
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In the X Window System, an X display manager is a graphical login manager which starts a login session on an X server from the same or another computer...
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used compositing managers and compositing window managers include: for Linux, BSD, Hurd and OpenSolaris using the X Window System: The 'X server' traditionally...
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Twm (redirect from Tom's Window Manager)
(Tab Window Manager) is a window manager for the X Window System. Started in 1987 by Tom LaStrange, it has been the standard window manager for the X Window...
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A stacking window manager (also called floating window manager) is a window manager that draws and allows windows to overlap, without using a compositing...
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open-source software portal The Ultrix Window Manager (uwm) is a historic standard window manager software for the X Window System from X11R1 through X11R3 releases...
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computing, the Motif Window Manager (MWM) is an X window manager based on the Motif toolkit. MWM is a lightweight window manager, having robust compliance...
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i3 is a tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii and written in C. It supports tiling, stacking, and tabbing layouts, which are handled...
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window manager for the X Window System. It aims to manage windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible. It is able to match a window by...
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Ion is a tiling and tabbing window manager for the X Window System. It is designed such that it is possible to manage windows using only a keyboard, without...
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cwm (Calm Window Manager) is a stacking window manager for the X Window System. While it is primarily developed as a part of OpenBSD's base system, portable...
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dynamic window manager for the X Window System developed in the C and Lua programming languages. Lua is also used for configuring and extending the window manager...
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The X video extension, often abbreviated as XVideo or Xv, is a video output mechanism for the X Window System. The protocol was designed by David Carver;...
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or Windows PowerShell. Task Manager was introduced in its current form with Windows NT 4.0. Prior versions of Windows NT, as well as Windows 3.x, include...
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The X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems. X originated as part of Project...
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Desktop environment (redirect from X window system desktop environment)
to the X Window System which can run several different desktop environments Comparison of X Window System desktop environments "Window managers and desktop...
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FVWM (redirect from F Virtual Window Manager)
Virtual Window Manager (FVWM) is a virtual window manager for the X Window System. Originally a twm derivative, FVWM is now a window manager for Unix-like...
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open source window manager for the X Window System. It is mainly intended for embedded systems and differs from most other window managers in that it only...
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Compiz (redirect from Beryl (window manager))
a compositing window manager for the X Window System, using 3D graphics hardware to create fast compositing desktop effects for window management. Effects...
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In computing, the X Window System (commonly: X11, or X) is a network-transparent windowing system for bitmap displays. This article details the protocols...
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Mutter (software) (redirect from Mutter (window manager))
window manager initially designed and implemented for the X Window System, but then evolved to be a Wayland compositor. It became the default window manager...
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KWin (category Free X window managers)
window manager for the X Window System and a Wayland compositor. It is released as a part of KDE Plasma, for which it is the default window manager....
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AfterStep (category Free X window managers)
AfterStep is a stacking window manager for the X Window System. The goal of AfterStep's development is to provide for flexibility of desktop configuration...
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X.Org Server is the free and open-source implementation of the X Window System (X11) display server stewarded by the X.Org Foundation. Implementations...
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In the X Window System, an X session manager is a session management program, a program that can save and restore the current state of a set of running...
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Virtual desktop (redirect from Virtual window manager)
much larger audience by Tom LaStrange in swm (the Solbourne Window Manager, for the X Window System) in 1989. ("Virtual Desktop" was originally a trademark...
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