Desktop Window Manager (DWM, previously Desktop Compositing Engine or DCE in builds of pre-reset Windows Longhorn) is the compositing window manager in...
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windowing system in a graphical user interface. Most window managers are designed to help provide a desktop environment. They work in conjunction with the underlying...
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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...
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compositing window managers; for Windows: the Desktop Window Manager; and for macOS: the Quartz Compositor. The window manager sends each window a message...
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user setup. Some window managers—such as IceWM, Fluxbox, Openbox, ROX Desktop and Window Maker—contain relatively sparse desktop environment elements...
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Desktop is a discontinued graphical desktop environment for the X Window System. It is based on the ROX-Filer, a drag and drop spatial file manager....
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into the desktop using hardware acceleration and the Desktop Window Manager (DWM). In the "Personalize" section added to Control Panel of Windows Vista,...
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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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patent. Switchable desktops were introduced to a much larger audience by Tom LaStrange in swm (the Solbourne Window Manager, for the X Window System) in 1989...
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Enlightenment is only a window manager at its core; however, with many modules included, it can be extended to resemble a full desktop environment. Since version...
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of the first builds to include the Desktop Composition Engine (DCE), which later became the Desktop Window Manager (DWM). This build appeared on the Internet...
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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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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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life and reduces performance. Windows Aero requires a compositing window manager called Desktop Window Manager. Windows Shell offers a new range of organization...
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window frames; dynamic light effects; dynamic taskbar thumbnail previews of open windows; and window animations facilitated by the new Desktop Window...
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extended in Windows 7. In addition to providing options to customize colors of window chrome and other aspects of the interface including the desktop background...
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Windows DreamScene is a utility that allows videos of the .wmv and .mpg format and other optimized animations to be used as desktop wallpapers. It is...
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IRIX Interactive Desktop uses the Motif widget toolkit on top of the X Window System found on most Unix systems. The default window manager on the IRIX Interactive...
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facilitates the new Desktop Window Manager, which provides the tearing-free desktop and special effects that are the cornerstones of the Windows Aero graphical...
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Task View (redirect from Task View (Windows))
desktop system introduced in Windows 10 and is among the first features new to Windows 10. Task View allows a user to quickly locate an open window,...
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functionality required to render the desktop and applications using Desktop Window Manager, a compositing window manager running on top of Direct3D. It also...
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DWM may refer to: dwm, a window manager for X11 Desktop Window Manager in Microsoft Windows Domain-wall memory, experimental computer memory Deutsche Waffen...
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software program had the same name. It was the standard window manager of the GNOME desktop environment until it was replaced by Metacity in Gnome 2...
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Xfce (redirect from Cholesterol Free Desktop Environment)
icons, the cursor, and the window manager. Additionally, Xfce provides a fully GUI-based system for modifying the desktop's status bar and system tray...
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now supports non-virtual desktop panning. MWM is a window manager, not a full desktop environment, so it only manages windows; it is expected that configuration...
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button, menu, or window title-bar styles. Instead, application software – such as window managers, GUI widget toolkits and desktop environments, or...
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released on 11 August 2015. Moksha is a window manager designed to have most of the functionalities of a desktop environment, while being lightweight and...
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Twm (redirect from Tom's Window Manager)
available as part of many X Window System implementations. twm's interface is different from modern common X window managers and desktop environments many of...
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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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ROX-Filer file manager (ROX Desktop) Dysfunctional spatial file managers: Windows Explorer in Windows 95 was set as a spatial file manager model by default;...
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