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JWM (Joe's Window Manager) 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....
 written by Joe Wingbermuehle. JWM is written in C
C (programming language)

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....
 and uses only Xlib
Xlib

Xlib is an X Window System protocol client library in the C . It contains subroutines for interacting with an X Server . These functions allow programmers to write programs without knowing the details of the protocol ....
 at a minimum. Support for the following can be added as compile-time options:






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JWM (Joe's Window Manager) 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....
 written by Joe Wingbermuehle. JWM is written in C
C (programming language)

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....
 and uses only Xlib
Xlib

Xlib is an X Window System protocol client library in the C . It contains subroutines for interacting with an X Server . These functions allow programmers to write programs without knowing the details of the protocol ....
 at a minimum. Support for the following can be added as compile-time options:
  • PNG and/or XPM
    XPM (image format)

    X Pixmap is an American Standard Code for Information Interchange-text-based image format used by the X Window System. It was created in 1989 by Daniel Dardailler and Colas Nahaboo working at Bull Research Center at Sophia Antipolis, France, and was later enhanced by Arnaud Le Hors....
     icons
  • Xft
    Xft

    Xft, the "X Window System FreeType" Interface library, is a Free software software library written by Keith Packard. As of version 2.1, it is licensed under a quasi-BSD license....
  • Xinerama
    Xinerama

    Xinerama is an extension to the X Window System which enables Multi-monitor X applications and window managers to use two or more physical displays as one large virtual display....
  • FriBidi
  • The Shape extension
    Shape extension

    In the X Window System, the shape extension allows window s to be given arbitrary, non-rectangular shapes.Two well-known applets that use the shape extension are oclock, which is a simple round analog clock, and xeyes, which shows two googly eyes that follow the cursor on the screen as if they were watching it....


It provides an interface akin to Windows 95
Windows 95

Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented graphical user interface-based operating system. It was released on August 24, 1995 by Microsoft, and was a significant progression from the company's previous Microsoft Windows products....
 with a modern-looking appearance and it can support some GNOME
Gnome

A gnome is a mythical creature characterized by its extremely small size and wiktionary:subterranean lifestyle. The word gnome is derived from the New Latin gnomus....
, Motif Window Manager
Motif Window Manager

In computing, the Motif Window Manager is an X-Windows window manager based on the Motif toolkit.MWM is a lightweight and, by today's standards, minimalist window manager....
 and WM spec hints.

JWM is the default window manager used in Damn Small Linux
Damn Small Linux

Damn Small Linux or DSL is a computer operating system for the x86 architecture family of personal computers. It is Free software under the terms of its main license the GNU GPL....
, System Rescue CD, most versions of Puppy Linux
Puppy Linux

Puppy Linux is a Live CD Linux distribution that is very small and focuses on Usability. If the computer has at least 256 MB of RAM, the entire operating system and all the applications will run from Random access memory, allowing the boot medium to be removed after the operating system starts....
, and the in-memory lightweight distribution Slitaz.

See also

  • Fluxbox
    Fluxbox

    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 ....
    , Openbox
    Openbox

    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....
     and 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....
    , other lightweight window managers.


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