Aewm

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aewm is a minimal X window manager written in C for Unix and Linux systems. One of its goals is to be a good, basic implementation of the ICCCM and EWMH specifications. The standard distribution includes a taskbar which, together with the window manager, comprises an extremely bare bones implementation of a Windows 95-esque desktop environment.

According to the aewm home page, aewm is written all-lowercase, but stands for "An Exiguous Window Manager".

Because of its learnable EMWH and ICCCM code, aewm has also served as the starting point for a large number of popular window managers for X. A list would include:

• Sapphire
• alloywm
• evilwm
• maewm
• Oroborus
• phluid
• swm
• Clementine
• WindowLab
• YeahWM
• Spook
• wimpwm

[edit] External links

• aewm home page

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