Sawfish (window manager)

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Sawfish
Sawfish logo

Screenshot of Sawfish
Developed by John Harper (retired), Sawfish community
Latest release 1.3.3 / 18 February 2008
OS Linux, Unix
Available in Multilingual
Genre Window manager
License GNU General Public License
Website http://sawfish.wikia.com/

Sawfish is a window manager for the X Window System. Formerly known as Sawmill, the name was changed because another software program had the same name (a commercial web log analysis program).

Distinctively, Sawfish uses a Lisp-like scripting language, rep, for all of its code, making it particularly easy to extend. For example, it can incorporate keybindings for XMMS.

Sawfish does not come with a panel and was used with the GNOME desktop environment until it was replaced by Metacity in GNOME 2.2.[1]

The latest released version, 1.3.3, was released on 18 February 2008.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Murray Cumming (February 2003). GNOME 2.2.0 Release Notes - Metacity Window Manager. GNOME.org. Retrieved on 2007-02-19.

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