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	Digg - PWM - The first tabbed window manager
		PWM was the first window manager to implement "tabbed frames" or the back then unique feature allowing multiple client windows to be attached to the same frame.
		The other major factor is that these window managers are fantastic for those who spend most of their time using the keyboard rather than the mouse.
		That is PWM is the first WM to support multiple windows tabbed in a single frame (with multiple tabs in the title bar), akin to tabbed browsing, and tabbed dialog boxes, and so on.
	digg.com /linux_unix/PWM_-_The_first_tabbed_window_manager (830 words)

	Window Managers for X: Other Window Managers
		MIWM: The Microscopic Window Manager is a minimal window manager written in C++ which is efficient and stable, and supports virtual desktops.
		Mosquito: A small window manager by Erik Thyrén, not to be confused with the beginnings of a GNOME-compliant window manager also called Mosquito by Michael Rogers, which seems to have disappeared.
		PWM: This is a lightweight window manager, which can frame multiple client windows within a single frame.
	xwinman.org /others.php (1433 words)

	Sao's Place - Window managers for X11
		Sawfish is an extensible window manager using a Lisp-based scripting language --all window decorations are configurable and all user-interface policy is controlled through the extension language.
		Window management is what it does best and it makes good use of desktop real estate without having to deal with issues like icons or taskbars.
		Oroborus is a small, themeable window manager for X which provides all the necessary window management functions as well as a themeable desktop, full keyboard controls and virtual desktops.
	homepage.mac.com /sao1/fink/wmanagers.html (1430 words)

	PWM - SWiK
		PWM is a lightweight x window manager that can have multiple client windows attached to a single frame, that can be switched between via tabbing.
		Although PWM is now no longer being actively developed, PWM's tabbed windowing feature has been extremely influential and many other window managers have copied it.
		Fluxbox is a lightweight and highly configurable window manager with pwm-like tabs, based on the Blackbox window manager.
	swik.net /PWM (397 words)

	Advogato: Window managers with workspaces vs. Windows MDI
		In Windows, the solution has been implemented in the built-in WM and in the libraries that can be used by all applications: there is a set of functions for generating MDI interfaces, and the applications that want to use this system can have their sub-windows managed inside a big top-level window.
		The X solution is more flexible because the user can choose how the windows are grouped (e.g., having several applications on the same workspace, or the windows of a single application spread over several workspaces) instead of having this choice made for them by the application developers.
		When you have used a window manager with multiple workspaces for so long, it is hard to think about the problems that are encountered by those who are still having all windows on a single workspace.
	advogato.org /article/287.html (5485 words)

	Linux Links - The Linux Portal: Software/Window_Managers
		Anarchy is a window manager for the X Window System and is implemented in less than 500 lines of CLOS oriented Scheme code.Despite its small code size, it supports most functions expected of a basic window manager (move, resize, hide, minimize, maximize, list windows, root menu).
		It has a click-to-focus but not raise-on-focus policy, a window resizing mechanism that allows one or many edges of a window to be changed in one action, and an innovative menubar that shares the same part of the screen as the taskbar.
		Window titlebars are prevented from going off the edge of the screen by constraining the mouse pointer, and when appropriate the pointer is also constrained to the taskbar/menubar in order to make target menu items easier to hit.
	www.linuxlinks.com /Software/Window_Managers (3266 words)

	Advanced Window Managers in the UNIX World - OSNews.com
		The window manager's main purpose is to move/resize windows on the screen.
		The solution of PWM solved some problems, but it was still a difficult task to completely manage all windows with the keyboard only.
		To be exact, Exposé is actually not a window manager, but a feature of newer versions of Apple's window manager for MacOS X. It does not try to arrange windows non-overlapping nor does it try to favor the keyboard in window management.
	www.osnews.com /story.php?news_id=6958 (1209 words)

	My PWM page
		The last version of a standalone PWM is verion 1.0 and Tuomo gave it away to code ion.
		It's using some of my home-made fonts (taken from existing ones), a clock displayed on the root window - rootclock (it's made so that it can be used as a framework for rootapps applications) - and my new workspace indicator pwmwi3 (the old version - pwmwi2 - was not very efficient and not very eye-candy).
		The nineth patch fix a bug on windows circulation (with 2 frames on a workspace, if the mouse is on one frame and the other has the focus, when you terminate the latter, you have to switch workspaces to regain focus -- with colors -- on the remaining frame).
	tnemeth.free.fr /pwm (912 words)

	MetaWM - MetaWM
		MetaWM is a modular codebase intended to reduce redundancy between window managers, and provide a platform for experimentation for new aspiring window manager developers.
		With almost 100 different window managers written for X, I believe there is a lot of scope for sharing code given that most share many basic features such as; resizable windows, movable windows or key bindings.
		As their original authors move on many window managers become largly unmaintained while no one finds the time to learn the intricacies of yet another window manager.
	metawm.sourceforge.net (247 words)

	Plaidophile: Reasons I don't like X11.app (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		X11.app, in rootless mode, allows the window manager to place windows under the menu bar at the top of the screen, which is rather disastrous on most window managers.
		Simply scrubbing the mouse within the window doesn't bring focus back to what you were working on when, say, an alert box came up from another applicatoin, either; you have to either click, or move the mouse outside of the window and back in.
		Again, for window managers other than quartz-wm, there is no ability to raise a window after switching to it from another app.
	beesbuzz.biz /blog/e/2003/10/26-reasons_i_dont_like_x11app.php (1798 words)

	QNX Developer Support
		By default, a window is brought to the front only if you click on the window title bar.
		This affects the placement of the PWM Taskbar and the PDM control panel, as well as the dimensions used when maximizing windows.
		PWM is notified of the new options and reconfigures itself.
	www.qnx.com /developers/docs/qnx_4.25_docs/photon114/run_inst/utils/pwm.html (1065 words)

	.:F L U X B O X:. - Documentation - Fluxbox Manpage
		In fluxbox, the window button's configuration is controlled by your ~/.fluxbox/titlebar file, which specifies which buttons to put on the right of left side of the title bar.
		When moving a window across your screen, Fluxbox is able to have it `snap' to the edges of the screen for easy placement.
		Tabs let you group windows together, they will take up identical desktop space (windows smaller or larger than the existing group size get resized automatically) and can be moved as a group around the desktop or to a different workspace.
	fluxbox.sourceforge.net /docs/newdoc.manpage.php (3835 words)

	freshmeat.net: Category Reviews - Window Managers
		FVWM is one of the oldest window mangers that is still in widespread use and actively maintained.
		Most window managers support the same functions, there is no point in naming particular window managers to talk about a feature that likely more than half have.
		This has shapped many of the modern window managers, and for that you should see that not only raster, but the enlightenment folks have definatly bought a "solution" to what they thought was a "problem".
	freshmeat.net /articles/view/639 (5987 words)

	PWM Manager software
		The PWM Manager program is based upon entirely on the services of Firmware V5.x.x.
		In PC-Link mode the PWM generator does not work and the phase excitations of all the motors (FETs) are in switched off position.
		They determine the lower speed point of the in position holding PWM (holding path) mode, which is the speed value belonging to the biggest torque point at the same time.
	www.hobbycnc.hu /CNC/VezerloProfi/PCLink/PWME.htm (1342 words)

	Ion
		In most common window managers and operating systems it is usually left for the user to attempt to keep the windows organised instead of the window manager.
		Attaching multiple client windows to a single frame (or “tabbing” them) as introduced in PWM helps keeping the windows organised in some cases but still, this does not help with programs that have multiple windows for manipulating a single document and the navigation possibilities are far from perfect.
		To ultimately solve usability problems to the extent possible with current technologies, applications should be written independent of their user interfaces and the UIs should be built according to the user's preferences based on a high-level semantic description of commands provided by the application.
	modeemi.cs.tut.fi /~tuomov/ion (946 words)

	GNU/Linux : Environnement graphique
		While KDE includes a window manager, file manager, panel, control center and many other components that one would expect to be part of a contemporary desktop environment, the true strength of this exceptional environment lies in the interoperability of its components.
		"9wm is an X window manager which attempts to emulate the Plan 9 window manager 8-1/2 as far as possible within the constraints imposed by X. It provides a simple yet comfortable user interface, without garish decorations or title-bars.
		PWM does not even have titlebar buttons and may not be the easiest window manager to get into, most Good Things are not.
	www.redfoxcenter.org /GNU-Linux/WindowManager (5725 words)

	wmctrl - A command line tool to interact with an EWMH/NetWM compatible X Window Manager.
		The command line access to these window management functions makes it easy to automate and execute them from any application that is able to run a command in response to an event.
		In some of these window managers, EWMH is supported only in their current unstable/beta/developer releases (01/2005).
		Xtail emulates the behaviour of "tail -f" on the root window (background) of an X session.
	sweb.cz /tripie/utils/wmctrl (1037 words)

	Ubuntu -- ion3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Windows are placed in tabbed frames which may be arbitrarily split to create additional frames, making keyboard navigation much easier.
		There is also support for so-called "floating workspaces" where windows are managed the conventional way, so that you can still run applications which do not fit very well into Ion's window management approach.
		A pwm3 binary is included which starts Ion with floating workspaces as the default, thus replacing the now obsolete PWM window manager.
	packages.ubuntu.com /hoary/x11/ion3 (206 words)

	Open Source Project Listing tagged xwindows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fluxbox is a lightweight and highly configurable window manager with pwm-like tabs.
		Nitrogen is a background browser and setter for X windows.
		This is because the approach to its development was the opposite of what seems to be the general case for window managers.
	ohloh.net /projects?tag_name=xwindows&sort=name (360 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		.TH PWM 1.SH NAME PWM - An X11 window manager.SH SYNOPSIS.B pwm.I "[options]".SH "DESCRIPTION" The original PWM was the first tabbing window manager.
		This version of PWM is based on the code of Ion and is actually exactly the same window manager with only differences in default configuration files, configuration file lookup paths and some options.
		The bindings are the same except that the query module is not loaded by PWM configuration files by default, so that queries won't work.
	web.mit.edu /glasser/man/man1/pwm.1 (197 words)

	.:F L U X B O X:. - Features - The Tabs
		The idea is to make working with a lot of windows at the same time easier, without having to switch too much and often between the workspaces.
		So here's the solution; group the windows (xterms, netscapes, nedit windows or whatever) so it only takes up space like one, then have a little tab for each new window and when you click that tab it switches window.
		To move a window into another, to form a group, you drag it on the tab with the third (middle) mouse-button to the desired window to join.
	fluxbox.sourceforge.net /features/tabs.php (198 words)

	Some OSX Screen Shots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It's not that OS X is just filled with eye candy, it's that it's excruciatingly enjoyable to use.
		I didn't realize that OS X would so nicely do two monitors with the very inexpensive video card I bought ($40), but it made a world of difference for me. The dock stays on only one screen, which isn't great, but it works well.
		PWM is a very minimal and economical X window manager.
	osx.hyperjeff.net /showcase (719 words)

	Open Source Project Listing tagged window_manager (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is designed to be highly flexible, extensible, and portable, all the while keeping in mind that the users know how they want their desktops to act better than we do.
		Stumpwm is a tiling window manager written entirely in Common Lisp.
		While we are best known for the Enlightenment Window Manager itself there is a long history of providing advanced libraries and tools to support the window manager and other applications, such as Imlib, FNLib, and Imlib2, which extend far beyond the window manager itself in scope.
	www.ohloh.net /projects?tag_name=window_manager (973 words)

	freshmeat.net: Project details for PWM
		PWM is a rather lightweight window manager that can have multiple client windows attached to a single frame.
		But, still PWM was truly lightweight, no dependencies, no nothing.
		What i had liked most on pwm was it's simplicity.
	freshmeat.net /projects/pwm (369 words)

	Window 2000 Wallpaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		PWM (X window manager) - In Unix computing, PWM is a lightweight X11 window manager, and the first to feature tabbed windows at the window manager level.
		The "Windows 2000 Commands Pocket Reference complements "Windows 2000 Commands Pocket Reference complements "Windows 2000 Administration in a now-famous newsgroup post, were that none of the enterprise storage market is moving from high-end servers to also include medium range servers.
		The "Windows 2000 Administration in a now-famous newsgroup post, were that none of the applications looked, felt, or worked alike to each other.
	ve10.dtstraffic.com /window2000wallpaper.html (662 words)

	Window manager - LQWiki
		The X Window System doesn't manage the windows on its own, it leaves that job to this program.
		The window manager handles where a window will appear on the screen, how big the window will be, etc. It handles things like resizing and minimizing.
		The title bar at the top of most windows is often handled by the window manager.
	wiki.linuxquestions.org /wiki/Window_manager (126 words)

	Linux Online - Category: GUI / Window Managers
		An themable login/display manager for X Window systems based on Evas.
		Window Manager designed for speed, usability, and consistency.
		A window manager that can have multiple windows attached to a single frame.
	www.linux.org /apps/all/GUI/Window_Managers.html (185 words)

	Window Managers for X: Fluxbox
		One of the most popular of these is window tabs, which allow a number of windows to be grouped together into one, with named tabs to select which window of the group is visible.
		This feature can be used to reduce screen clutter, and is similar to the tabbing capabilities of the PWM window manager, and also the Galeon web browser.
		Other features include an iconbar for minimized windows, configurable titlebars, partial GNOME support, and support for KDE dockets and WindowMaker dockapps, which are small applications contained in the "slit" component of Fluxbox (which is inherited from Blackbox).
	xwinman.org /fluxbox.php (355 words)

	LinuxPlanet - Opinions - The StartX Files: Of Mice and Finns - Giving The Two-Fingered Salute
		Using the Microsoft®.NET Framework in Windows Server® 2003 and the Microsoft SQL Server™ 2000 database, the new Infolect® system has been built to achieve unprecedented levels of performance, availability, and business agility.
		I know this idea will seem to run counter to this week's introduction of a keyboard-centric window manager, but I felt like the mouse folks should get a fair shake out of this week's column, too.
		This is good timing, considering what I will be reviewing in the weeks ahead: window managers that for the most part try to avoid the use of the mouse altogether.
	www.linuxplanet.com /linuxplanet/opinions/3201/1 (816 words)

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