A window manager is system software that controls the placement and appearance of windows within a windowing system in a graphical user interface. Most...

A stacking window manager (also called floating window manager) is a window manager that draws and allows windows to overlap, without using a compositing...

Enlightenment, also known simply as E, is a compositing window manager for the X Window System. Since version 0.20, Enlightenment also supports Wayland...

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...

tiling window manager is a window manager with the organization of the screen often dependant on mathematical formulas to organise the windows into a...

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...

Task Manager, previously known as Windows Task Manager, is a task manager, system monitor, and startup manager included with Microsoft Windows systems...

Sway is a tiling window manager and Wayland compositor, inspired by i3, and written in C. Sway is designed as a drop-in replacement for i3 using the more...

Desktop Window Manager (DWM, previously Desktop Compositing Engine or DCE in builds of pre-reset Windows Longhorn) is the compositing window manager in Microsoft...

compositing window manager is a window manager that is also a compositing manager. Compositing managers may perform additional processing on buffered windows, applying...

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...

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...

In computing, a dynamic window manager is a tiling window manager where windows are tiled based on preset layouts between which the user can switch. Layouts...

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...

The Windows Boot Manager (BOOTMGR) is the bootloader provided by Microsoft for Windows NT versions starting with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008...

using windows as one of its main "metaphors" is called a windowing system, whose main components are the display server and the window manager. The idea...

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...

the operating system had launched, introducing a hardware-accelerated window manager called "Aura" along with a conventional taskbar. The additions marked...

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...

display server and of a window manager in the windowing system. For Microsoft Windows, from Windows Vista onward, Desktop Window Manager enables the use of...

and keyboards. The window manager generally runs on top of this windowing system. While the windowing system may provide some window management functionality...

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...

twm (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...

The Windows Package Manager (also known as winget) is a free and open-source package manager designed by Microsoft for Windows 10 and Windows 11. It consists...

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...

behind PARC's original windowing system, to be the developer team lead for Windows 1.0. Microsoft first demonstrated a window manager to the press in September...

File Manager is a file manager program originally bundled with releases of OS/2 and Microsoft Windows between 1988 and 2000. It is a single-instance graphical...

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...

user-interface design, such as button, menu, or window title-bar styles. Instead, application software – such as window managers, GUI widget toolkits and desktop environments...

TalkSoup, an IRC client Terminal Zipper, a file archiver tool Window Maker is a window manager that emulates NeXTSTEP's GUI as an OpenStep-compatible environment...