PLWM

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In Unix computing, PLWM (The Pointless Window Manager) is a Python package, containing classes suitable for implementing an X window manager, and also a window manager created using the PLWM package. Its internal structure is highly modularized, and can be fully customized and scripted with configuration files written in the implementation language, in a manner similar to Emacs, in order to change everything from keybindings to window management policies.

PLWM is one of a very few modern window managers that is not reparenting.

Resources

Official PLWM Web Site

v t e Window management topics

Methods	Tiling Stacking Dynamic Compositing Re-parenting

Tiling examples	awesome dwm i3 PWM Ion wmii ratpoison xmonad Xerox Star Windows 1.0 GEM (2.0 and later)

Stacking examples	amiwm twm cwm mwm FVWM Enlightenment Blackbox Presentation Manager Windows 2.0 Windows 9x Windows NT (until Windows XP) Mac OS 9 and earlier GEM 1.1 WindowLab Xerox Alto Openbox

Compositing examples	Beryl Compiz Desktop Window Manager Metacity Mutter KWin Xfwm Quartz Compositor

OSes with a WS	AmigaOS Atari TOS BeOS Linux on the desktop Linux for mobile devices Mac OS Microsoft Windows OpenVMS OS/2 Pilot RISC OS

Components	Window manager Window decoration Dock Title bar Task bar Notification Area Menu extra Pager

Related reading	Windowing system Display server Desktop environment GUI widget X Window System X window manager Wayland Mir Virtual desktop OpenGL DirectX GPU Mouse Keyboard WIMP GUI Widget toolkit Turbo Vision Qt GTK AIGLX XGL Shell (computing) Painter's algorithm Resolution independence

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