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.
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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.
In computing, the Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual is a standard for interoperability between X Window System client of the same X Window System protocols and architecture.... /EWMH
Extended Window Manager Hints
Extended Window Manager Hints, aka NetWM or Net WM, is an X Window System standard for X window manager. It defines various interactions between window managers, utilities, and applications, all part of an entire desktop environment.... compliant
In Unix computing, KWin is a X window manager for the X Window System. It is an integral part of the KDE , although it can be used on its own or with other desktop environments....
C++ is a general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as a middle-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level programming language and low-level programming language language features.... / Qt
Qt (toolkit)
Qt is a cross-platform application development framework, widely used for the development of graphical user interface programs , and also used for developing non-GUI programs such as console tools and servers....
The GNU General Public License is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. The GPL is the most popular and well-known example of the type of strong copyleft license that requires derived works to be available under the same copyleft....
A compositing window manager is a component of a computer's graphical user interface that draws windows and/or their borders. It also controls how they are displayed and interact with each other, and the rest of the desktop environment....
Metacity is a compositing window manager used by default in the GNOME desktop environment. The development of Metacity was started by Havoc Pennington and it is released under the GNU General Public License....
C is a general-purpose computer programming language originally developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories to implement the Unix operating system.... / GTK
The GNU General Public License is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. The GPL is the most popular and well-known example of the type of strong copyleft license that requires derived works to be available under the same copyleft....
A compositing window manager is a component of a computer's graphical user interface that draws windows and/or their borders. It also controls how they are displayed and interact with each other, and the rest of the desktop environment....
Compiz is one of the first compositing window managers for the X Window System that uses 3D graphics hardware to create fast compositing desktop effects for window management....
OpenGL is a standard specification defining a cross-language cross-platform Application programming interface for writing applications that produce 2D computer graphics and 3D computer graphics....
The MIT License is a free software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , used by the MIT X Consortium.It is a Permissive_free_software_licence license, meaning that it permits reuse within proprietary software on the condition that the license is distributed with that software....
A compositing window manager is a component of a computer's graphical user interface that draws windows and/or their borders. It also controls how they are displayed and interact with each other, and the rest of the desktop environment....
Xfce is a free software desktop environment for Unix and other Unix-like platforms, such as Linux, Solaris and BSD. It aims to be fast and lightweight, while still being visually appealing and easy to use....
C++ is a general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as a middle-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level programming language and low-level programming language language features.... / C / GTK
The GNU General Public License is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. The GPL is the most popular and well-known example of the type of strong copyleft license that requires derived works to be available under the same copyleft.... /LGPL
GNU Lesser General Public License
The GNU Lesser General Public License or LGPL is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation . It was designed as a compromise between the strong-copyleft GNU General Public License and permissive licenses such as the BSD licenses and the MIT License....
A compositing window manager is a component of a computer's graphical user interface that draws windows and/or their borders. It also controls how they are displayed and interact with each other, and the rest of the desktop environment....
In Unix computing, Blackbox is a X window manager for the X Window System.Blackbox has specific design goals, and some functionality is provided only through other applications....
The MIT License is a free software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , used by the MIT X Consortium.It is a Permissive_free_software_licence license, meaning that it permits reuse within proprietary software on the condition that the license is distributed with that software....
The MIT License is a free software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , used by the MIT X Consortium.It is a Permissive_free_software_licence license, meaning that it permits reuse within proprietary software on the condition that the license is distributed with that software....
In Unix computing, Fluxbox is an X window manager fork on Blackbox 0.61.1. It aims to be lightweight and customizable, and has minimal support for graphical icon ....
The MIT License is a free software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , used by the MIT X Consortium.It is a Permissive_free_software_licence license, meaning that it permits reuse within proprietary software on the condition that the license is distributed with that software....
Matchbox is a free software and open source software X 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 shows one window at a time....
The GNU General Public License is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. The GPL is the most popular and well-known example of the type of strong copyleft license that requires derived works to be available under the same copyleft....
Openbox is a free software window manager for the X Window System, licensed under the GNU General Public License. Openbox was originally derived from Blackbox 0.65.0, but has been totally rewritten in the C and since version 3.0 is not based upon any code from Blackbox....
The GNU General Public License is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. The GPL is the most popular and well-known example of the type of strong copyleft license that requires derived works to be available under the same copyleft....
A compositing window manager is a component of a computer's graphical user interface that draws windows and/or their borders. It also controls how they are displayed and interact with each other, and the rest of the desktop environment....
xmonad is a tiling window manager for the X Window System, written in the Functional programming Haskell .Begun in March 2007, it is similar to dwm, larswm, Stumpwm and other members of the tiling window manager family, in that it strives to make it possible for the user to productively manage windows without the use of the Mouse ....
In computing, a tiling window manager is a window manager with an organization of the screen into mutually non-overlapping frames, as opposed to the more popular approach of coordinate-based stacking of overlapping objects that tries to fully emulate the desktop metaphor....
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....
The GNU General Public License is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. The GPL is the most popular and well-known example of the type of strong copyleft license that requires derived works to be available under the same copyleft.... /LGPL
GNU Lesser General Public License
The GNU Lesser General Public License or LGPL is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation . It was designed as a compromise between the strong-copyleft GNU General Public License and permissive licenses such as the BSD licenses and the MIT License....
The GNU General Public License is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. The GPL is the most popular and well-known example of the type of strong copyleft license that requires derived works to be available under the same copyleft....
evilwm is a window manager for the X Window System. It lacks traditional window manager decorations in that there is only a one pixel border around windows, and even this feature can be removed or re-adjusted from a command-line option....
The acronym DWM can stand for:*Desktop Window Manager - A compositing window manager included with Microsoft Windows*Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken...
The GNU General Public License is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. The GPL is the most popular and well-known example of the type of strong copyleft license that requires derived works to be available under the same copyleft....
In computing, a tiling window manager is a window manager with an organization of the screen into mutually non-overlapping frames, as opposed to the more popular approach of coordinate-based stacking of overlapping objects that tries to fully emulate the desktop metaphor....
(no titlebar buttons)
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See also
Comparison of X Window System desktop environments
