Motif Window Manager
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| Motif Window Manager | |
 Motif Window Manager with iconized windows. |
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| Developer: | The Open Group |
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| Latest release: | 2.1.30 / May 15, 2002 |
| OS: | Unix-like |
| Use: | X window manager |
| License: | The Open Group Public License |
| Website: | [1] |
In Unix computing, The Motif Window Manager (MWM), is an X window manager based on the Motif toolkit.
Motif is a light weight, and by today's standards, a minimalist window manager. MWM lacks support for desktop icons or virtual desktops. A plain text file is used to generate a root menu that the user can customize. A plain text file can alter the colors of MWM's gui but little else.
Motif, and MWM, were created by the Open Software Foundation (and was sometimes even called OSF/Motif) but is nowadays owned by The Open Group.
Originally, MWM and Motif could only be purchased but now there is also Open Motif which is a release of the "original" Motif under more liberal licensing terms. Finally, the LessTif project has been working hard to implement the API under the LGPL license. This includes a clone of MWM with support for virtual desktops.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Motif homepage at Open Group
- Open Motif project page
- The Motif FAQ (Kenton Lee)
- Motif: Volumes 6A and 6B (O'Reilly and Associates, free PDF downloads)
- [2] Motif User's Guide
