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evilwm is a window manager
Window manager

A window manager is computer software that controls the placement and appearance of window within a windowing system in a graphical user interface....
 for 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....
. It lacks traditional window manager decorations in that there is only a one pixel
Pixel

In digital imaging, a pixel is the smallest item of information in an image. Pixels are normally arranged in a 2-dimensional grid, and are often represented using dots, squares, or rectangles....
 border around windows, and even this feature can be removed or re-adjusted from a command-line option. evilwm has other basic window manager features such as key bindings for tasks such as launching a terminal
Terminal emulator

A terminal emulator, terminal application, term, or tty for short, is a program that emulates a "dumb" video Computer terminal within some other display architecture....
 and managing windows and virtual desktop
Virtual desktop

A virtual desktop is a term used, usually within the WIMP paradigm, to describe ways in which a computer's desktop environment is expanded through the use of software....
s.

evilwm is free software
Free software

Free Software or software libre is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with minimal restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things and to prevent consumer-facing hardware...
. It is based on the source code to aewm
Aewm

aewm is a computing minimalism X window manager written in C for Unix and Linux systems. One of its goals is to be a good, basic implementation of the ICCCM and EWMH specifications....
, which itself was based on the source code to 9wm
9wm

9wm is an X11 window manager written by David Hogan in 1994 to emulate the Plan 9 from Bell Labs SecondEdition window manager, 8? . Many later minimalist window managers for...
, a minimalist window manager based on the interface to the Plan 9
Plan 9 from Bell Labs

Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a distributed operating system, primarily used for research. It was developed as the research successor to Unix by the Computing Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs between the mid-1980s and 2002....
 operating system.








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evilwm is a window manager
Window manager

A window manager is computer software that controls the placement and appearance of window within a windowing system in a graphical user interface....
 for 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....
. It lacks traditional window manager decorations in that there is only a one pixel
Pixel

In digital imaging, a pixel is the smallest item of information in an image. Pixels are normally arranged in a 2-dimensional grid, and are often represented using dots, squares, or rectangles....
 border around windows, and even this feature can be removed or re-adjusted from a command-line option. evilwm has other basic window manager features such as key bindings for tasks such as launching a terminal
Terminal emulator

A terminal emulator, terminal application, term, or tty for short, is a program that emulates a "dumb" video Computer terminal within some other display architecture....
 and managing windows and virtual desktop
Virtual desktop

A virtual desktop is a term used, usually within the WIMP paradigm, to describe ways in which a computer's desktop environment is expanded through the use of software....
s.

evilwm is free software
Free software

Free Software or software libre is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with minimal restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things and to prevent consumer-facing hardware...
. It is based on the source code to aewm
Aewm

aewm is a computing minimalism X window manager written in C for Unix and Linux systems. One of its goals is to be a good, basic implementation of the ICCCM and EWMH specifications....
, which itself was based on the source code to 9wm
9wm

9wm is an X11 window manager written by David Hogan in 1994 to emulate the Plan 9 from Bell Labs SecondEdition window manager, 8? . Many later minimalist window managers for...
, a minimalist window manager based on the interface to the Plan 9
Plan 9 from Bell Labs

Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a distributed operating system, primarily used for research. It was developed as the research successor to Unix by the Computing Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs between the mid-1980s and 2002....
 operating system.

See also

  • Comparison of X window managers
    Comparison of X window managers

    This article lists comparisons between X window managers.See also * Comparison of X Window System desktop environmentsReferences ...


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