Floating, Stacking · Window Manager
Window Maker
Window Maker is an X11 window manager originally designed to provide integration support for the GNUstep Desktop Environment, although it can run stand alone. In every way possible, it reproduces the elegant look and feel of the NeXTSTEP user interface. The key features of Window Maker are: Stacking window manager with the ability for semi-automatic tiling…
Alfredo Kojima, Carlos Mafra, contributors
Overview
About Window Maker
Window Maker is an X11 window manager originally designed to provide integration support for the GNUstep Desktop Environment, although it can run stand alone. In every way possible, it reproduces the elegant look and feel of the NeXTSTEP user interface.
The key features of Window Maker are:
- Stacking window manager with the ability for semi-automatic tiling management
- Lightweight and blazing fast
- Easy to use
- Highly configurable
- Ability to bind keyboard shortcut to wide set of actions
- Dynamic menu entries
- Small, dockable apps (dockapps)
- Human readable config files and GUI prefs application
- Free and open source
- Active community from all over the world
Notable features
Recreates the NeXTSTEP workspace metaphor with clip,dock,app icons,and WINGs-based preferences while remaining independently usable.
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