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.... 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... developed by Tom LaStrange at Solbourne Computer
Solbourne Computer
Solbourne Computer Inc. was originally a vendor of computer systems based in Longmont, Colorado, USA, funded by Matsushita. In the late 1980s and early '90s, the company produced a range of computer workstations and server based on the SPARC microprocessor architecture, largely compatible with Sun Microsystems' Sun-4 systems.... in 1990. The most important innovation of swm was the introduction of the 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.... . It also introduced a primitive form of session management (restoring programs in use at the time of shutdown) to X.
Another window manager with a similar name is sWM or small window manager , developed for use in systems with little memory and small screens.
