X window manager
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x-window-manager-169-12765790
title:
X window manager
text:
An X window manager is a window manager that runs on top of the X Window System, a windowing system mainly used on Unix-like systems. Unlike MacOS Classic, macOS, and Microsoft Windows platforms, which have historically provided a vendor-controlled, fixed set of ways to control how windows and panes display on a screen, and how the user may interact with them, window management for the X Window System was deliberately kept separate from the software providing the graphical display. The user can
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Type of window manager
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_window_manager
date created:
2002-08-06T16:22:04Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T16:20:58Z
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