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Sawfish (window manager)
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Sawfish is an extensible window manager
for the X Window System
. Its aim is simply to manage windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible. Formerly known as Sawmill, the name was changed because another software program
had the same name.
Distinctively, Sawfish uses a Lisp-like scripting language
, rep, for all of its code, making it particularly easy to extend. For example, it can incorporate keybindings for XMMS
and has extensive window matching rules to automatically alter a particular window's position, behavior and appearance.
Sawfish does not come with a panel
and was the standard window manager of the GNOME
desktop environment
until it was replaced by Metacity
in GNOME 2.2.
The latest released version, 1.8.1, was released on 3rd of May, 2011
Window manager
A window manager is system software that controls the placement and appearance of windows within a windowing system in a graphical user interface. Most window managers are designed to help provide a desktop environment...
for the X Window System
X Window System
The X window system is a computer software system and network protocol that provides a basis for graphical user interfaces and rich input device capability for networked computers...
. Its aim is simply to manage windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible. Formerly known as Sawmill, the name was changed because another software program
Sawmill (software)
Sawmill is a software package for the statistical analysis and reporting of log files, with dynamic contextual filtering, 'live' data zooming, user interface customization, and custom calculated reports. Sawmill also incorporates real-time reporting and real-time alerting...
had the same name.
Distinctively, Sawfish uses a Lisp-like scripting language
Scripting language
A scripting language, script language, or extension language is a programming language that allows control of one or more applications. "Scripts" are distinct from the core code of the application, as they are usually written in a different language and are often created or at least modified by the...
, rep, for all of its code, making it particularly easy to extend. For example, it can incorporate keybindings for XMMS
XMMS
The X Multimedia System is a free audio player for Unix-like systems.-History:XMMS was originally written as X11Amp by Peter and Mikael Alm in November 1997. The player was made to resemble Winamp, which was first released in May that year. As such, XMMS has supported Winamp 2 "classic" skins...
and has extensive window matching rules to automatically alter a particular window's position, behavior and appearance.
Sawfish does not come with a panel
Panel (computer software)
In graphical computer software a panel is :* A widget commonly packaged as part of a Widget toolkit for a graphical user interface. See toolbar and dialog box...
and was the standard window manager of the GNOME
GNOME
GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system. It is composed entirely of free and open source software...
desktop environment
Desktop environment
In graphical computing, a desktop environment commonly refers to a style of graphical user interface derived from the desktop metaphor that is seen on most modern personal computers. These GUIs help the user in easily accessing, configuring, and modifying many important and frequently accessed...
until it was replaced by Metacity
Metacity
Metacity was the window manager used by default in the GNOME desktop environment until GNOME 3, where it was replaced by Mutter. The development of Metacity was started by Havoc Pennington and it is released under the GNU General Public License....
in GNOME 2.2.
The latest released version, 1.8.1, was released on 3rd of May, 2011
See also
- StumpWM, a tiling window managerTiling window managerIn 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.-Xerox PARC:Although the...
in Common LispCommon LispCommon Lisp, commonly abbreviated CL, is a dialect of the Lisp programming language, published in ANSI standard document ANSI INCITS 226-1994 , . From the ANSI Common Lisp standard the Common Lisp HyperSpec has been derived for use with web browsers...
. - xwemhttp://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/XWindowEmacsManager, a window manager "based" on EmacsEmacsEmacs is a class of text editors, usually characterized by their extensibility. GNU Emacs has over 1,000 commands. It also allows the user to combine these commands into macros to automate work.Development began in the mid-1970s and continues actively...
(an ELisp module for being run by XEmacsXEmacsXEmacs is a graphical- and console-based text editor which runs on almost any Unix-like operating system as well as Microsoft Windows. XEmacs is a fork, based on a version of GNU Emacs from the late 1980s...
. Development stopped in 2003.).
External links
- Official Sawfish Website Wiki
- Sawfish development host at tuxfamily.org