A window manager is system software that controls the placement and appearance of windows within a windowing system in a graphical user interface. Most...
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In computing, a tiling window manager is a window manager with an organization of the screen into mutually non-overlapping frames, as opposed to the more...
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window buffers into an image representing the screen and writes the result into the display memory. A compositing window manager is a window manager that...
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An X window manager is a window manager that runs on top of the X Window System, a windowing system mainly used on Unix-like systems. Unlike MacOS Classic...
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Task Manager, previously known as Windows Task Manager, is a task manager, system monitor, and startup manager included with Microsoft Windows systems...
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i3 is a tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii and written in C. It supports tiling, stacking, and tabbing layouts, which are handled...
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Desktop Window Manager (DWM, previously Desktop Compositing Engine or DCE) is the compositing window manager in Microsoft Windows since Windows Vista that...
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A stacking window manager (also called floating window manager) is a window manager that draws and allows windows to overlap, without using a compositing...
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Sway is a tiling window manager and Wayland compositor, inspired by i3, and written in C. Sway is designed as a drop-in replacement for i3 using the more...
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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...
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