Unix Unix (; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, a ...

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, ...

, CTWM (Claude's Tab Window Manager) is a

stacking window manager A stacking window manager (also called floating window manager) is a window manager that draws and allows windows to overlap, without using a compositing algorithm. All window managers that allow the overlapping of windows but are not compositing ...

for the

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 ...

in the twm family of window managers. It was created in 1992 by Claude Lecommandeur from the source code for twm, which he extended to allow for

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s ("workspaces" in CTWM's terminology.)

Features

Features of the CTWM window manager include: * Stacking windows * Written in C * Support for up to 32

s * Advanced icon management * Animated icons and backgrounds * Customizable * 3d titles and borders * Freely distributable under the MIT License * Basic EWMH support (as of 4.0.0) * Backwards-compatibility with twm. * XPM and

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images

References

External links

* * {{X desktop environments and window managers Free X window managers Software using the MIT license