tvtwm is an

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 she ...

derived from

twm twm (Tab Window Manager) is a X window manager, window manager for the X Window System. Started in 1987 by Tom LaStrange, it has been the standard window manager for the X Window System since version X11R4. The name originally stood for Tom's Wi ...

to which it adds the

virtual desktop In computing, a virtual desktop is a term used with respect to user interfaces, usually within the WIMP paradigm, to describe ways in which the virtual space of a computer's desktop environment is expanded beyond the physical limits of the s ...

feature from swm. All of these window managers were originally written by Tom LaStrange. The current maintainer of tvtwm is Chris Ross. James Tanis believes he may be the only remaining user of tvtwm, and placed a notice on his web site seeking other users who would like a

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Unlike most more recent virtual window managers, tvtwm models the root window as a single large space, with the physical desktop being a viewport onto that virtual root window. The user can scroll the viewport around the virtual desktop either by pressing certain keys or by clicking into a scaled down representation of the virtual desktop, the so-called panner.
tvtwm7
GNU automake build source of original tvtwm

History

Announcement of patchlevel 1
31 August 1990
Announcement of patchlevel 2
5 September 1990
Announcement of patchlevel 3
3 October 1990
Patch 4
(no announcement) 16 November 1990
Announcement of patchlevel 5
24 April 1991
Announcement of patchlevel 6
13 June 1991 * Patch 7 was included on the contrib tape for

X11R5 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 wit ...

* Patch 10 was included in the contrib section for

X11R6 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 wit ...

* The latest release is patchlevel 11

References

{{X desktop environments and window managers Free X window managers