A window manager is computer software that controls the placement and appearance of window within a windowing system in a graphical user interface.... normally used on Silicon Graphics
Silicon Graphics
Silicon Graphics, Inc. is a company manufacturer high-performance computing solutions, including computer hardware and computer software. SGI was founded by James H.... workstations running IRIX
IRIX
IRIX is a computer operating system developed by Silicon Graphics, Inc. to run natively on their 32- and 64-bit MIPS architecture workstations and servers.... . 4Dwm is derived from the older mwm window manager and uses the Motif
Motif (widget toolkit)
In computing, Motif refers to both a graphical user interface specification and the widget toolkit for building applications that follow that specification under the X Window System on Unix and other POSIX-compliant systems.... widget toolkit
Widget toolkit
A widget toolkit, widget library, or GUI toolkit is a set of GUI widget for use in designing applications with graphical user interfaces .... on top of the X Window System
X Window System
The X Window System is a computing software system and network protocol that provides a graphical user interface for networked computers. It implements the X Window System protocols and architecture and provides windowing system on raster graphics Visual display units and manages Keyboard and pointing device control functions.... found on most Unix
Unix
Unix is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of American Telephone & Telegraph employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson , Dennis Ritchie, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna.... systems.
A graphical user interface is a type of user interface which allows people to human-computer interaction such as computers; hand-held devices such as MP3 Players, Portable Media Players or Gaming devices; household appliances and office equipment.... desktops to be standard on a particular Unix computer system.
A window manager is computer software that controls the placement and appearance of window within a windowing system in a graphical user interface.... normally used on Silicon Graphics
Silicon Graphics
Silicon Graphics, Inc. is a company manufacturer high-performance computing solutions, including computer hardware and computer software. SGI was founded by James H.... workstations running IRIX
IRIX
IRIX is a computer operating system developed by Silicon Graphics, Inc. to run natively on their 32- and 64-bit MIPS architecture workstations and servers.... . 4Dwm is derived from the older mwm window manager and uses the Motif
Motif (widget toolkit)
In computing, Motif refers to both a graphical user interface specification and the widget toolkit for building applications that follow that specification under the X Window System on Unix and other POSIX-compliant systems.... widget toolkit
Widget toolkit
A widget toolkit, widget library, or GUI toolkit is a set of GUI widget for use in designing applications with graphical user interfaces .... on top of the X Window System
X Window System
The X Window System is a computing software system and network protocol that provides a graphical user interface for networked computers. It implements the X Window System protocols and architecture and provides windowing system on raster graphics Visual display units and manages Keyboard and pointing device control functions.... found on most Unix
Unix
Unix is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of American Telephone & Telegraph employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson , Dennis Ritchie, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna.... systems.
A graphical user interface is a type of user interface which allows people to human-computer interaction such as computers; hand-held devices such as MP3 Players, Portable Media Players or Gaming devices; household appliances and office equipment.... desktops to be standard on a particular Unix computer system. Other X window manager
X window manager
An X window manager is a window manager which runs on top of the X Window System, a windowing system mainly used on Unix-like systems.Unlike the Mac OS and Microsoft Windows platforms, which have historically provided a vendor-controlled, fixed set of ways to control how windows and paned windows display on a Computer display, and how the... s that mimic the 4Dwm look and feel
Look and feel
Look and feel is a term used in descriptions of products and fields such as product design, marketing, branding and trademarking, to describe the main features of its appearance.... exist, such as "4Dwm" for IceWM
IceWM
IceWM is a stacking window manager for the X Window System graphical infrastructure, written by Marko Macek. It was coded from scratch in C++ and is released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.... . (4Dwm has no relation to dwm
DWM
The acronym DWM can stand for:*Desktop Window Manager - A compositing window manager included with Microsoft Windows*Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken... .)
IRIX Interactive Desktop is a desktop environment normally used as the default desktop on Silicon Graphics workstations running IRIX. The IRIX Interactive Desktop uses the Motif widget toolkit on top of the X Window System found on most Unix systems....
Xsgi is the Silicon Graphics implementation of the X Window System server for its IRIX-based IRIS graphical workstations and servers. Xsgi was released in 1991 with IRIX 4.0 on the SGI Indigo workstation....
