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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the same window, and can easily combine tiling and stacking in various ways. Microsoft Windows has provided an integrated stacking window manager since Windows...
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more common approach used by stacking window managers, which allow the user to drag windows around, instead of windows snapping into a position. This...
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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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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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compositing window managers are inherently more resource-hungry than an equivalently-powerful stacking window manager. For this reason, some window managers for...
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Twm (redirect from Tom's Window Manager)
Consortium when they adopted it in 1989. twm is a stacking window manager that provides title bars, shaped windows and icon management. It is highly configurable...
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In the "stacking" strategy, the window manager tells the back window to repaint itself. In the "compositing" strategy, the window manager maintains...
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Blackbox (category Free X window managers)
Blackbox is a free and open-source stacking window manager for the X Window System. Blackbox has specific design goals, and some functionality is provided...
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Openbox (redirect from Openbox Window Manager)
Openbox is a free, stacking window manager for the X Window System, licensed under the GNU General Public License. Originally derived from Blackbox 0.65...
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Fluxbox (redirect from Fluxbox (window manager))
Fluxbox is a stacking window manager for the X Window System, which started as a fork of Blackbox 0.61.1 in 2001, with the same aim to be lightweight....
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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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image. By comparison, the stacking window manager in Windows XP and earlier (and also Windows Vista and Windows 7 with Windows Aero disabled) comprises...
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Comparison of X window managers dwm wmii i3 (window manager) Ion (window manager) Stacking window manager StumpWM Tiling window manager xmonad 1.0 release...
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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...
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ordering of overlapping two-dimensional objects, such as windows in a stacking window manager, shapes in a vector graphics editor, or objects in a 3D application...
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Olwm (category X window managers)
olwm (OPEN LOOK Window Manager) was the default stacking window manager for OpenWindows, the original X11 desktop environment included with SunOS and...
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the Wayback Machine. aewm — a stacking window manager. alloywm — partial compliance. awesome — a dynamic window manager that is configured in Lua. Blackbox...
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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...
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Linux operating system with the i3 tiling window manager, previously using the Openbox stacking window manager. ArchBang is especially suitable for high...
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CTWM (category Free X window managers)
computing, CTWM (Claude's Tab Window Manager) is a stacking window manager for the X Window System in the twm family of window managers. CTWM was created in 1992...
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IceWM (category Free X window managers)
IceWM is a stacking window manager for the X Window System, originally written by Marko Maček. It was written from scratch in C++ and is released under...
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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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feature on Mount Everest CWM may refer to: cwm (window manager) or Calm Window Manager, a stacking window manager for Unix systems Canadian War Museum, Canada's...
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and UTF-8 support. A stacking window manager Uses the Motif widget library Applications can be launched via a menu panel Window decorations include borders...
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AntiX (section Window managers)
Zzzfm file managers, with the GTK library and using IceWM as the window manager. antiX-full and antiX-base include these stacking window managers: Lightweight:...
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Lumina was initially a set of extensions to Fluxbox, a stacking window manager for the X Window System. By late 2013, Moore had developed a graphical overlay...
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Amiwm (category X window managers)
computing, the AMIga Window Manager (amiwm) is a stacking window manager for the X Window System written by Marcus Comstedt. The window manager emulates the Amiga...
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alternative to Cisco's patented HSRP/VRRP redundancy protocols cwm, a stacking window manager doas, a safer replacement for sudo OpenBSD httpd, an implementation...
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needed] Generally, window managers which are capable of compositing allow drop shadow effects, whereas incapable window managers do not. In some operating...
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