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Qvwm is a
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 conjunction ...
, intended as a reimplementation of the
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interface for
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systems. Released in 1996 under the
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. The project's name comes from wordplay references to Japanese words and Roman numbers. In 2000, ''
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'' called Qvwm "an unusually impressive imposter". Unlike Windows 95's
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, Qvwm uses a textual configuration file. Qvwm includes
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s, a feature lacking in Windows 95. One reviewer criticized this practice as "against qvwm's stated purpose." Apart from standard X libraries, the only
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it depends on is
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(libxpm). The developers had intended to develop a full class library called ''libqv'' but this never occurred. The original author of Qvwm, Kenichi Kourai, no longer maintains it, but in 2006 the project was picked up by Ivan Kurmanov, who applied patches made by the
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project and added features of his own. Qvwm was included in Debian since 1999 but was removed in early 2009 because of the lack of updates as well as using deprecated libraries. In 2020, the source code of Qvwm is available on Github (under the user Asveikau) so this window manager can be compile-install to Linux (BSDs, Minix, etc.) through "configure, make, install" method (or any method similar or better than this).


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