WindowMaker
Window Maker is a window manager originally designed to
provide integration support for the GNUstep Desktop
Environment. It reproduces the elegant look and feel of the NEXTSTEP
user interface. It is fast, feature rich, easy to configure, and easy
to use.
Window Maker
is not overloaded with features, and it is easier to configure than
most other window managers. One of its goal is to produce a window
manager that does not require editing of configuration files. Window
Maker does not require tons of memory to run.
Window Maker includes compatibility options which
allow it to work with other popular desktop environments, namely GNOME
and KDE,
and comes with a powerful GUI configuration editor, called
WPrefs, which removes the need to edit text-based config files by
hand.
The interface, while offering many features, tends towards a
minimalist, high performance environment directly supporting XPM, PNG,
JPEG, TIFF, GIF and PPM icons with an alpha-channel, a right-click,
sliding-scrolling application menu system which can throw off pinnable
menus, along with window-icon miniaturization and other animations on
multiple desktops.
Features include:
- Support for multiple workspaces
- Built-in themes support
- Over 13 types of window decorations, including custom
defined
- Support for XPM, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and PPM icons (no
conversions with external programs) with an alpha-channel
- Support for setting the root window background (via the
wmsetbg utility)
- Optional
superfluous animations, such as window shading, customizeable icon
miniturization effects, slide/scrolling menus, and much more
- Built-in icon dithering with support for 4bpp and 8bpp
displays
- Popup menus that support keyboard traversal, which can be
"pinned" to the root window
- Support for GNUstep, GNOME, and KDE window hints to better
integrate with those desktop environments
- Support for Motif and OPEN LOOK window hints to better
interface with applications based on those toolkits
- Built-in GUI configuration utility that eliminates the need
to hand edit config files
- Application Dock (similar to NEXTSTEP/MacOS X Dock) that
can be configured using drag and drop
- Workspace Dock (aka Clip/Fiend) which is a workspace
specific Dock extender
- Support for rudimentary session management
- Support for dockapps (equivalent of applets or epplets)
- Ability to change all preferences and menus on-the-fly
without having to restart the window manager
- Almost complete ICCCM compliance
- Left Half / Right Half Maximise
- Maximize a window such that it occupies the largest area
without overlapping others
- History and TAB completion in dialogs
- Windows can be resized vertically (horizontally)
using MOD+Wheel
- National language I18N support (over 11 locales)
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