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  2. 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 ...

  3. COSMIC (desktop environment) - Wikipedia

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    COSMIC is made from scratch and is not based on any existing desktop environment. [5] It features a custom theming system, utilizes the Rust-based iced graphics toolkit, streamlined window tiling, and its own applications (a text editor, a terminal emulator, a file manager, a settings application, and an app store).

  4. Desktop environment - Wikipedia

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    A desktop environment aims to be an intuitive way for the user to interact with the computer using concepts which are similar to those used when interacting with the physical world, such as buttons and windows. While the term desktop environment originally described a style of user interfaces following the desktop metaphor, it has also come to ...

  5. Desktop Window Manager - Wikipedia

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    Passes the Windows Aero acceptance test in the Windows Driver Kit (WDK) In Windows 7, the Desktop Window Manager has been reworked to use Direct3D 10.1, but the hardware requirements remain the same as in Windows Vista; Direct3D 9 hardware is supported with the "10 Level 9" layer introduced in the Direct3D 11 runtime. Windows 8 has the same ...

  6. Motif Window Manager - Wikipedia

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    MWM is a window manager, not a full desktop environment, so it only manages windows; it is expected that configuration, programs, sound, are provided by other programs. A plain text file is parsed to customize menus, user input mappings, management features, and user made functions of the same.

  7. awesome (window manager) - Wikipedia

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    Windows can be assigned to several tags, and multiple tags can be selected at the same time. As a dynamic window manager , awesome can switch between different layouts for each tag, including floating , several dynamic tiling layouts, maximized and magnifier .

  8. List of Microsoft Windows components - Wikipedia

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    Client implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol; allows a user to securely connect to a computer running Terminal Services (Remote Desktop on Windows XP and Server 2003) and interact with a full desktop environment on that machine, including support for remoting of printers, audio, and drives.

  9. Virtual desktop - Wikipedia

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    Unlike nearly all other virtual desktop solutions for Windows, this utility actually uses native "desktop objects," as discussed above. Because of this, it does not offer the ability to move programs between desktops, or in fact to stop using virtual desktops at all, short of logging off, [10] and Windows Aero only works on the primary desktop ...