Sawfish is a

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for the

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windows opening full-screen without borders on a secondary monitor, a default

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window displaying full-screen at the desktop level, and all

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windows under a certain size opening on the lower right corner of the main monitor while larger ones are centered. Sawfish uses a

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, rep, for all of its code and configuration, making it particularly easy to customize, or program many kinds of behavior, responding to window creation, deletion, or any other changes. There is a GUI configuration utility for users who do not wish to edit configuration files directly.

History

Sawfish was first called Sawmill. The name was changed because another software program had the same name. It was the standard window manager of the GNOME

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until it was replaced by Metacity in Gnome 2.2. The development had stopped, but the community restarted it in 2007.

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