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Window Maker - Window manager for X Window System

Window Manager is a fully configurable window manager for the X window system. Its features include: --ICCCM compliant --support for GNOME, GNUstep, and KDE --localization support --drag and drop support --flexible menus for launching applications --treat windows belonging to a single application as a whole --can quickly access multiple workspaces --supports many kinds of decoration textures --good functionality vs. resource consumption ratio --graphically configurable --many styles and textures for window and icon decorations While designed to give additional integration support to the GNUStep desktop, Windowmaker also works with GNOME and KDE.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.windowmaker.org/
Source tarball http://windowmaker.org/pub/source/release/WindowMaker-0.80.2.tar.gz
Version 0.80.2 (beta) released on 2002-11-21
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.
This is a GNU package.

Documentation
User FAQ available in HTML format from http://www.windowmaker.org/faq.html; User guide available in HTML format from http://www.windowmaker.org/documentation-userguide.html
Support contacts

Announce List<wm-user@windowmaker.org> http://www.windowmaker.org/lists.html
Help List<wm-user@windowmaker.org> http://www.windowmaker.org/lists.html
Developer List<wm-dev@windowmaker.org> http://www.windowmaker.org/lists.html
Bug List<bugs@windowmaker.org> http://www.windowmaker.org/lists.html

Project contacts

Maintainers
  • None
Developers
Contributors

Related information

InterfacesX Window System
Programswmaker, WindowMaker, wxcopy, wxpaste, WPrefs, get-wraster-flags, get-wings-flags, get-wutil-flags, wdwrite, getstyle, setstyle, seticons, geticonset, wmsetbg, wsetfont
Source languagesC
Supported languagesC
Use requirementsX11, libProplist, libjpeg. libpng, libXpm
Build prerequisiteslibproplist, X development libraries
Weak prerequisiteslibjpeg, libXpm, libungif, GNU gettext
Related programsGNUstep

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-02-01
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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