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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 ...
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 ...
dwm: Dynamic: C: 2006-07-14 6.5 [10] ... Motif Window Manager (mwm) ... Comparison of X Window System desktop environments; Window manager; List of Wayland ...
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.
Microsoft Windows has provided an integrated stacking window manager since Windows 2.0; Windows Vista introduced the compositing Desktop Window Manager (dwm.exe) as an optional hardware-accelerated alternative.
Desktop Window Manager: DWM The compositing manager introduced in Windows Vista that handles compositing and manages special effects on screen objects in a graphical user interface Graphics Device Interface: GDI/GDI+ The kernel graphics component for representing graphical objects and transmitting them to output devices such as monitors and ...
A virtual window manager is a window manager that uses virtual screens, whose resolution can be higher than the resolution of one's monitor/display adapter thus resembling a two dimensional virtual desktop with its viewport. This environment is very useful when one wishes to have a large number of windows open at the same time.
The Desktop Window Manager is a very interesting concept for most computer users who like graphical user interfaces with stunning views. And the DWM just offers that. Anyone with links for screenshots of some of the views can add them to this talk page. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Annex (talk • contribs) .