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| Original author(s) | Chris Cannam |
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| Stable release | |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Linux, Unix-like |
| Type | Window manager |
| Website | all-day-breakfast |
wm2 is a minimalist reparenting window manager for the X Window System written by Chris Cannam.
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| Original author(s) | Chris Cannam |
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| Stable release | |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Linux, Unix-like |
| Type | Window manager |
| Website | all-day-breakfast |
wm2 is a minimalist reparenting window manager for the X Window System written by Chris Cannam.
wm2 was released around 1997 and was inspired by the window manager from the operating system Plan 9. [3]
wm2 was designed to have a simple set of features and be fast. It provides support for moving, resizing, and deleting windows, but does not support desktop icons, menus, toolbars, panels, or docks. [4] Instead of icons, wm2 allows temporary hiding of windows from the desktop environment. Hidden windows can be recovered via a menu from the root window. It does not support interactive configuration, or provide a virtual desktop, and other features of modern window managers such as configurable root menus, toolbars, etc. Configuration options require editing and recompiling a source file and few options are available. [5] [6] wm2 is intended to be configuration free. [7]
wmx is a version of wm2 modified to add experimental features otherwise not supported in wm2. [8] [9]
wm2 was noted as being "very spartan", "bare-bones", and minimalist, though opinions on it were positive as it is allows for easy access to X11 and window management without too much configuration. [6] [10] [11] One author noted it used less memory than the other options he tried, getting it to run with only 0.7MB of memory. [4]
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