Window managers; Active window; Window Manager; Active Window; Window management; Windows manager
A windowmanager is system software that controls the placement and appearance of windows within a windowing system in a graphical user interface. Most window managers are designed to help provide a desktop environment.
Window managers; Active window; Window Manager; Active Window; Window management; Windows manager
<operating system> A part of a window system which arranges
windows on a screen. It is responsible for moving and
resizing windows, and other such functions common to all
applications.
Examples from the X Window System are twm, gwm, olwm.
(1994-12-06)
X windowmanager
SOFTWARE FOR UNIX TYPE OPERATING SYSTEMS
X Window managers; XWM; X11 window manager; X.org window manager
An X windowmanager is a windowmanager that runs on top of the X Window System, a windowing system mainly used on Unix-like systems.