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DWM works in different ways depending on the operating system (Windows 7 or Windows Vista) and on the version of the graphics drivers it uses (WDDM 1.0 or 1.1). Under Windows 7 and with WDDM 1.1 drivers, DWM only writes the program's buffer to the video RAM, even if it is a graphics device interface (GDI) program.
Display drivers in Windows Vista and Windows 7 can choose to either adhere to WDDM or to XDDM. [4] With the removal of XDDM from Windows 8, however, WDDM became the only option. [5] WDDM provides the functionality required to render the desktop and applications using Desktop Window Manager, a compositing window manager running on top of Direct3D.
First introduced in Windows Vista, the Desktop Window Manager (DWM) in Windows 7 has been updated to use version 10.1 of Direct3D API, and its performance has been improved significantly. [ 60 ] The Desktop Window Manager still requires at least a Direct3D 9-capable video card (supported with new D3D10_FEATURE_LEVEL_9_n [ 61 ] device type ...
Windows Aero. A distinctive feature of Windows Aero showing "glass-like" window borders on Windows 7. Windows Aero (a backronym for Authentic, Energetic, Reflective, and Open[1][2]) is the design language introduced in the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system. The changes introduced by Windows Aero encompassed many elements of the Windows ...
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.
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 configuration ...
Tiling window manager. The dwm window manager with the screen divided into four tiles. In computing, a tiling window manager is a window manager with the organization of the screen often dependant on mathematical formulas to organise the windows into a non-overlapping frame. This is opposed to the more common approach used by stacking window ...
A compositing manager, or compositor, is software that provides applications with an off-screen buffer for each window. The compositing manager composites the window buffers into an image representing the screen and writes the result into the display memory. [1][2] Compositing managers may perform additional processing on buffered windows ...