This article compares variety of different
X window manager
An X window manager is a window manager that runs on top of the X Window System, a windowing system mainly used on Unix-like systems.
Unlike MacOS Classic, macOS, and Microsoft Windows platforms (excepting Microsoft Windows explorer.exe sh ...
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X Window System
The X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems.
X provides the basic framework for a GUI environment: drawing and moving windows on the display device and interacting ...
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General information
Features
See also
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Comparison of X Window System desktop environments
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Window manager
A window manager 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. They work in conjunct ...
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List of Wayland compositors This is a list of display servers.
X11
*Cygwin/X
*KDrive
*Low Bandwidth X
* MacX
* Mir (display server)
*MKS X/Server
*Multi-Pointer X
* Reflection X
* RISCwindows
* WiredX
*X Window System
* X-Win32
*X.Org Server
*X386
* Xapollo
*XDarwin
*X ...
References
External links
Comparison of extensible window managerscompares window managers "extensible" by user scripts, like
Sawfish,
xmonad, etc.
''The Comprehensive List of Window Managers for Unix''
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