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	X window manager - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A window manager is software that controls the placement and appearance of application windows under the X Window System, a graphical user interface on Unix systems that enables a user to interact with a number of application programs simultaneously.
		Each one typically has its own independent window, and when a window manager is available, interaction between the X server and its clients is redirected through the window manager.
		Unlike the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows platforms, which have historically provided a vendor-controlled, fixed set of ways to control how windows and panes display on a screen, and how the user may interact with them, window management for the X Window System was an afterthought.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Window_manager (375 words)

	Through an X Window Darkly
		X clients, on the other hand, are the applications programs that tell your X server what to draw and where to draw it.
		The window manager is the X client program that puts a frame around a window, and takes care of moving, resizing, and iconifying the window when you give the proper commands.
		In other words, X provides the means for clients and servers to communicate, but lets each window manager and each application make its own decisions about what a button does, how to move or resize a window, how to determine which window grabs the keyboard input, and so forth.
	www.uic.edu /depts/accc/network/xwindark.html (2373 words)

	What's a window manager?
		X is responsible for the hardware related settings: it controls, for example, the mouse, keyboard, and the monitor settings like refresh rate and resolution.
		So, X makes it possible for the graphical apps to display their interface on the screen, but X doesn't control the windows where the apps are displayed.
		Remember that there are a lot of holy window manager wars, and for everyone, the window manager they're using themselves is the right and only one and all other window managers suck.
	www.tuxfiles.org /linuxhelp/xwtf.html (1085 words)

	Window Managers for X: Introduction
		There have been numerous versions of the X Window System, but it was not until the eleventh version, known simply as "X11", that it was widely released and began to gain the popularity it enjoys today.
		Fortunately X doesn't suffer from this degree of rigidity, and to this end, a large number of window managers have been developed, which between them provide a large range of different appearances and different behaviours.
		This means that a newcomer to X has firstly a choice of window manager, and then a choice of the precise configuration of the chosen window manager.
	xwinman.org /intro.php (528 words)

	Enlightenment (X window manager) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		It used to be the default window manager for GNOME.
		Window grouping - the ability to put windows into groups so that they can all be moved, resized, closed etc together.
		One of the aims of the window manager is to be as configurable as possible, and to this end, it includes easy-to-use customization dialogs for focus settings, window movement, resizing, grouping and placement settings, audio, multiple desktop, desktop background, pager, tooltip and autoraise settings.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/E/En/Enlightenment_(X_window_manager)1.htm (495 words)

	Ion (X window manager) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Unix computing, Ion is a tiling and tabbing window manager for the X Window System.
		It is designed such that it is possible to manage windows using only a keyboard, without needing a mouse.
		Since the first release of Ion in the summer 2000, similar alternative window management ideas have begun to show in other new window managers: LarsWM, WMI, and TrsWM.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ion_(X_window_manager) (186 words)

	Window manager
		In the X Windowing System, there is (usually; we exclude situations like web kiosks here) a single special application whose responsibility is to look after the arrangement of windows (e.g., allowing people to drag them around and resize them) and the look and feel of the decorations of the window (title bar, frame, etc.).
		Typically, applications communicate with window managers by providing them with hints; they can ask to be a certain size and at a certain position, but ultimately if the WM decides to put the window somewhere else (e.g., because the user moved or resized it) then there's nothing that the app can do about it.
		All sorts of things (including quite a lot of window management) are done using this mechanism, most of which Tk conceals from you (and with good reason; it's a very low level mechanism.) xprop is a little utility that allows you to probe these properties.
	wiki.tcl.tk /1851 (507 words)

	Use MicroX-Win32 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Currently, motif is the recommended Remote X Window manager to use on panther.
		When you start a session, you will get a window that looks exactly as if you were sitting at an X station.
		The advantage of using the Single Window mode is that you have access to all the mouse menus and can choose a remote X manager you are familiar with.
	www.uwo.ca /its/doc/hdi/x11/microx-32.html (969 words)

	Linux - X Window System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The windowing system used under Unix is known as the X Window System.
		XFree86 is the organisation behind the free port of X to Linux.
		The look of your X is determined primarily by your window manager, of which there are many.
	www.caliban.org /linux_xwindow.html (459 words)

	Window Manager Flames
		But an external X window manager is in a different address space must try to manage many shared resources at a distance, an intrinsicly difficult task, imposing limitations on the whole system and unavoidably restricting the user interface possibilities.
		In contrast, PizzaTool has a popup pizza preview window, whose shape is a rectangular frame around a round (or semi-circular, depending on your appetite) pizza window, with the space between the inside of the frame and the pizza cut out.
		The shape of a TNT window is not simply defined by curves or bitmaps -- it is defined by a method of the window object, which can apply constraints and may depend on the state of other objects in the system, like the size or number of slices of the pizza inside the frame.
	www.art.net /~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/i39l.html (3390 words)

	Window Managers
		A window manager is much what the description would suggest; it is a program that manages the windows on an X "desktop." The functionality varies a lot; at a minimum, it tends to include providing interfaces to allow the user to select, move, and resize windows.
		With the configuration the author provides for it, this is perhaps the "wildest" of the X window managers, at least graphically.
		Its aim is simply to manage windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible.
	cbbrowne.com /info/xwm.html (497 words)

	W W W . E N L I G H T E N M E N T . O R G
		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.
		Version 0.16 of the Enlightenment window manager was released in 2000, along with its dependencies Imlib and Fnlib, and remains in heavy usage today.
		Nearly all functions of the window manager can be handled without mouse input, including application launching via e16keyedit.
	www.enlightenment.org (680 words)

	Use MicroX-Win v2.8.8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Unless you are familiar with the X Windows or Unix, it is recommended that you start off with a default XDM setup on the host machine.
		Many X applications and X Windows managers expect a three button mouse where button 1, 2, and 3 all have specific functions assigned to them.
		With Motif, (the default X Window manager at ITS), this means that you can get the X Window Applications menu by pressing the left button, the Configuration menu by pressing the right button, and the Remote Connect menu by pressing both buttons simultaneously, to simulate the middle button.
	www.uwo.ca /its/doc/hdi-old/microx.html (1403 words)

	LinuxQuestions.org - X window manager - where Linux users come for help
		The windows manager also allows you to drag those frames around the screen, most of the time, as well as iconify, maximize...
		A X client ask for geometric shapes, or bitmaps, or text to be rendered, then the X server receives the requests, and do what it can with those.
		The X servers really tries its best, up to the point of changing things if needed: try and find the best match for a font that is not available, or use the closest matching color...
	www.linuxquestions.org /questions/history/258296 (711 words)

	lwm - Lightweight Window Manager
		The general window hiding was first seen in Rob Pike's 8½ windowing system for Plan 9 (see his paper 8½, the Plan 9 Window System).
		I'd long thought about writing a window manager (since 1993, in fact), but seeing the size of twm (and even uwm is larger than both 9wm and lwm) put me off.
		The O'Reilly books Xlib Programming Manual and X Protocol Reference Manual (volumes one and zero respectively in their series of books on the X Window System) were invaluable to me while writing lwm.
	www.jfc.org.uk /software/lwm.html (842 words)

	Yet Another Window Manager Issue 21 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Another influence is the common Windows 95 interface, which does have some useful features worth emulating.
		The general appearance of the windows (borders, titlebars, et al) is very reminiscent of OS/2.
		Various types of "X" kill buttons are available, but the general appearance of the window-borders seems to be hard-coded; that is, not configurable.
	www.linuxgazette.com /issue21/icewm.html (384 words)

	Remote X Apps mini-HOWTO: Running a Remote Window Manager (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		At most one window manager can be running on a display at any time.
		and this means that when the (local) window manager exits, your session exits, and the X system (xdm or xinit) considers your session over and effectively logs you out.
		If you run a remote window manager, it will spawn remote applications, and this may not be what you want.
	www.olug.org /LDP/HOWTO/Remote-X-Apps-8.html (181 words)

	Apple - Mac OS X - X11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Prior to the introduction of Mac OS X, virtually the only way developers could create a graphical application in a UNIX-based operating system was with the X Window System, more commonly called X11.
		Experts may choose to replace the native Aqua window manager with their own familiar, standard X Window Manager.
		Beneath the surface of Mac OS X lies an industrial-strength UNIX foundation hard at work to ensure that your computing experience remains free of system crashes and compromised performance.
	www.apple.com /macosx/features/x11 (343 words)

	Citations: Gwm: the generic window manager - Nahaboo, Joloboff (ResearchIndex) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Although there are literally dozens of modern window managers in common use on the X windowing platform, only two (besides fvwm2) are especially related to Scwm.
		Although there are dozens of modern window managers in common use on the X windowing platform, only two (besides fvwm2) are especially related to SCWM.
		Sawmill is a new window manager with an architecture similar to GWM and SCWM (Harper 1999) Like GWM, it embeds its own unique dialect of Lisp (called rep) Both....
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /context/603897/0 (447 words)

	Window Maker - Your Next Window Manager (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Window Maker is an X11 window manager originally designed to provide integration support for the GNUstep Desktop Environment.
		Window Maker includes compatibility options which allow it to work with other popular desktop environments, namely GNOME and KDE, and comes with a powerful GUI configuration editor, called WPrefs, which removes the need to edit text-based config files by hand.
		The Window Maker window manager is in no way associated with Windowmaker, the world's leading software for windows and doors.
	largo.windowmaker.org (311 words)

	amiwm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		amiwm is an X window manager that tries to make your display look and feel like an Amiga® Workbench® screen.
		It is fully functional and can do all the usual window manager stuff, like moving and resizing windows.
		It can also be used on the Amiga with the AmiWin X server, although this part needs some more work.
	www.lysator.liu.se /~marcus/amiwm.html (107 words)

	WMI (X window manager) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		In Unix computing, Window Manager Improved (WMI), is a lightweight window manager for the X Window System.
		It also bills itself as the vim (text editor) of window managers, as it has two modes as in vim, a normal mode and a command mode.
		In the command mode, one uses the keyboard to execute various commands such as to invoke programs or configure the window manager.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /X-window-managers/WMI-(X-window-manager).html (118 words)

	Finder Window Manager 1.9.4 – Mac OS X – VersionTracker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Finder Window Manager (FWM) is an application for managing all of your Mac OS X Finder window needs.
		Once a Window Set has been created, you can move, close, or otherwise modify your windows and easily restore the captured Window Set properties, opening all of your Set windows and recreating the windows' views--and you can have an unlimited number of Window Sets.
		While FWM provides an easy-to-use interface for managing Window Sets, Sets are just the tip of the iceberg of this application's capabilities.
	www.versiontracker.com /dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20256 (389 words)

	I can't decide install which X window manager. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
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		I like a simpl one, but can display Chinese font.=20 If a window manager look like windowmaker, or flbox,=20 it has kate, filemanager, I will like it.
	linuxfromscratch.org /pipermail/blfs-support/2003-May/041018.html (243 words)

	wmctrl - A command line tool to interact with an EWMH/NetWM compatible X Window Manager. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		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 some 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 (1035 words)

	X Emacs Window Manager (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		XWEM is extremly usable and configurable Window Manager, if you are familar with Emacs editor, then you are automatically familar with XWEM.
		There are many of different window manages in a world.
		XWEM project will try to make window manager, which will combine power and flexibility, as Emacs do.
	www.nongnu.org /xwem (157 words)

	Xenotrout's Window Manager (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Though XenoWM can be used as a traditional floating window manager, it's actually a quick and easy dynamic tiling system.
		Windows can also be managed using the pointer alone, by dragging the frame with the left button to move or the right button to resize.
		Snap the window to the nearest screen or window edge on the left by pressing F. Expand the window to the nearest vertical edges by pressing E. Halve the window vertically by pressing s.
	xenowm.sourceforge.net (247 words)

	Re: [arkeia-list] arkx spontaneous X window manager change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		This sounds like a problem with your window manager.
		Window maker (and others) will fallback on lesser window managers like twm when a problem arises.
		Try checking for log files from Windowmaker or X and see if there are any problems in the startup.
	www.arkeia.com /archives_indexed/1999/06/msg00085.html (204 words)

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