Desktop Window Manager (DWM, previously Desktop Compositing Engine or DCE) is the compositing window manager in Microsoft Windows since Windows Vista...

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...

compositing window managers; for Windows: the Desktop Window Manager; and for macOS: the Quartz Compositor. The window manager sends each window a message...

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...

user setup. Some window managers‍—‌such as IceWM, Fluxbox, Openbox, ROX Desktop and Window Maker‍—‌contain relatively sparse desktop environment elements...

(used by stacking window managers) of coordinate-based stacking of overlapping objects (windows) that tries to fully emulate the desktop metaphor. The first...

into the desktop using hardware acceleration and the Desktop Window Manager (DWM). In the "Personalize" section added to Control Panel of Windows Vista,...

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

ROX Desktop is a graphical desktop environment for the X Window System. It is based on the ROX-Filer which is a drag and drop spatial file manager. It...

entire desktop environment. The first version of Enlightenment was released by Carsten Haitzler in 1997. Originally, it was just a window manager before...

life and reduces performance. Windows Aero requires a compositing window manager called Desktop Window Manager. Windows Shell offers a new range of organization...

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...

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...

Window Maker is a free and open-source window manager for the X Window System, allowing graphical applications to be run on Unix-like operating-systems...

implement a desktop environment. It defines both required and optional protocols. The window manager may choose to implement virtual desktops or a layered...

The Windows shell is the graphical user interface for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Its readily identifiable elements consist of the desktop, the...

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...

functionality required to render the desktop and applications using Desktop Window Manager, a compositing window manager running on top of Direct3D. It also...

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...

the desktop environment. A fundamental part of a DE is the window manager or WM. A window manager creates a certain way for application windows to present...

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...

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...

for virtual desktops. Already known for his rxvt terminal emulator, Nation worked on reducing the memory consumption of his new window manager. Deciding...

handling and file manager in Nemo; an additional desktop panel layout option that offers a more modern looking theme and grouped windows; improved naming...

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

Comparison of Start menu replacements for Windows 8 Comparison of X Window System desktop environments Desktop environment History of the graphical user...

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,...

original on 8 August 2012. Retrieved 6 October 2015. "Linux – Desktops - Window Managers". Archived from the original on 5 September 2022. "May I create...

select a window manager or desktop environment in the login screen Qingy ultralight and very configurable graphical login independent on X Window (uses DirectFB)...

Remote Desktop Services (RDS), known as Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008 and earlier, is one of the components of Microsoft Windows that allow...