computing Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computing machinery. It includes the study and experimentation of algorithmic processes, and development of both hardware and software. Computing has scientific, e ...

, the AMIga Window Manager (amiwm) is a stacking window manager for the

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written by Marcus Comstedt. The window manager emulates the

Amiga Workbench Workbench is the desktop environment and graphical spatial file manager, file manager of AmigaOS developed by Commodore International for their Amiga line of computers. Workbench provides the user with a graphical interface to work with file sy ...

and includes support for multiple virtual screens like the AmigaOS, but doesn't offer more functionality than standard Workbench. By the words of its author, "the purpose of amiwm is to make life more pleasant for Amiga-freaks like myself who has/wants to use UNIX workstations once in a while". AmiWM was not updated for years since the 1998 release, yet Linux Format magazine rated it as fast and reliable in 2007. Although Marcus Comstedt included new features like support for AmigaOS 3.5 icons during internal development, a new version was not released until 2010.

Features

Features of the amiwm window manager include: * Supports iconification of running tasks * Window borders * Window titlebars * Titlebar buttons for menu, minimize, maximize, and close * Desktop

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Notes

References

External links

amiwm homepageamiwm's official githubxwinman.org page on Amiwmamiwm patch to make it look like Amiga OS 1.x
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