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, the Ardent Window Manager (awm) is an early

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software for the

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. It was descended from uwm. awm was written by

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for the

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's TITAN line of

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s in 1988, which ran a version of X11R2. It was included on the X11R3 contrib tape. The FAQ for the ''comp.windows.x''

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newsgroup says: ''The Ardent Window Manager was for a while a hotbed for hackers and offered some features (dynamic menus) not found on more current window managers.''

References

20) What are all these window managers? (Where can I get a "virtual" wm?)
(comp.windows.x FAQ 2/7)

External links

awm source code
(xwinman.org) X window managers {{Unix-stub