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  2. Window manager - Wikipedia

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    Under X11, when the window manager is not running, the window decorations are missing for most windows. A window manager is system software that controls the placement and appearance of windows within a windowing system in a graphical user interface. [1] Most window managers are designed to help provide a desktop environment.

  3. Desktop Window Manager - Wikipedia

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    The Desktop Window Manager is a compositing window manager, meaning that each program has a buffer that it writes data to; DWM then composites each program's buffer into a final image. By comparison, the stacking window manager in Windows XP and earlier (and also Windows Vista and Windows 7 with Windows Aero disabled) comprises a single display ...

  4. List of alternative shells for Windows - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of software that provides an alternative graphical user interface for Microsoft Windows operating systems. The technical term for this interface is a shell. Windows' standard user interface is the Windows shell; Windows 3.0 and Windows 3.1x have a different shell, called Program Manager. The programs in this list do not restyle ...

  5. Tiling window manager - Wikipedia

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    Windows 10 also supports FancyZones, a more complete tiling window manager facility allowing customized tiling zones and greater user control, configured through Microsoft PowerToys. Windows 11 added more built-in tiling options activated by hovering the mouse pointer over the maximize button.

  6. awesome (window manager) - Wikipedia

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    awesome is a dynamic window manager for the X Window System developed in the C and Lua programming languages. Lua is also used for configuring and extending the window manager. Its development began as a fork of dwm, though has differed considerably since. [4] It aims to be extremely small and fast, yet extensively customizable.

  7. dwm - Wikipedia

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    dwm is a minimalist dynamic window manager for the X Window System developed by Suckless that has influenced the development of several other X window managers, including xmonad [6] and awesome. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] It is externally similar to wmii , but internally much simpler. dwm is written purely in C for performance [ 9 ] and lacks any ...

  8. twm - Wikipedia

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    The name originally stood for Tom's Window Manager, but the software was renamed Tab Window Manager by the X Consortium when they adopted it in 1989. twm is a stacking window manager that provides title bars, shaped windows and icon management. It is highly configurable and extensible.

  9. ratpoison - Wikipedia

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    ratpoison is a tiling window manager for the X Window System primarily developed by Shawn Betts. The user interface and much of their functionality are inspired by the GNU Screen terminal multiplexer. [2] While ratpoison is written in C, Betts' StumpWM re-implements a similar window manager in Common Lisp.