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Panel for window switching Tabbed windows Themeable 9wm: No No No Yes No No aewm [citation needed] No No No Yes Yes No No awesome: Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Berry [citation needed] No Yes [a] Yes [b] No No No Yes Blackbox: No Depends [c] Depends [d] Yes [e] Yes No Yes bspwm [citation needed] No No Yes [f] Partial No No No Compiz: Yes Yes Yes ...
A window manager creates a certain way for application windows to present themselves to the user. It manages the various application windows, keeping track of which ones are open and providing features to switch between them. Another important element of a DE is the file manager. This application manages files/ folders and presents them in a ...
A virtual window manager is a window manager that uses virtual screens, whose resolution can be higher than the resolution of one's monitor/display adapter thus resembling a two dimensional virtual desktop with its viewport. This environment is very useful when one wishes to have a large number of windows open at the same time.
Note that many of these protocols might be supported, in part or in whole, by software layers below the file manager, rather than by the file manager itself; for example, the macOS Finder doesn't implement those protocols, and the Windows Explorer doesn't implement most of them, they just make ordinary file system calls to access remote files ...
Configuration is performed via a plain text file. [7] Window tiling is handled manually, rather than dynamically. Windows can be split horizontally or vertically. Windows can be arranged in a tabbed (horizontal listing like that found in web browsers) or stacked (vertical listing) layout. Windows can be floated similar to a floating window manager.
Sawfish Xsession running on Debian 7 Linux. Sawfish is a window manager for the X Window System.It aims to manage windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible. It is able to match a window by multiple criteria such as application, size or role, and based on this, can change the window's position, appearance, or behavio
Mutter can function as a standalone window manager for GNOME-like desktops, and serves as the primary window manager for the GNOME Shell, [5] which is an integral part of GNOME 3. Mutter is extensible with plug-ins, and supports numerous visual effects. GNOME Shell is written as a plug-in to Mutter.
ratpoison is a tiling window manager for the X Window System primarily developed by Shawn Betts. The user interface and much of their functionality are inspired by the GNU Screen terminal multiplexer. [2] While ratpoison is written in C, Betts' StumpWM re-implements a similar window manager in Common Lisp.