Sawfish (window manager)

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Sawfish

Screenshot of Sawfish
Developer(s)	John Harper (retired), Janek Kozicki (2007), Chritopher Brantusek, Sawfish community
Initial release	January 1, 2000 (2000-01-01)
Stable release	1.9.1 (September 1, 2012 (2012-09-01)) [±]^[1]
Preview release	1.9.90 (December 2, 2012 (2012-12-02)) [±]^[2]
Written in	C, Lisp
Operating system	GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Unix, Mac OS X
Available in	Multilingual
Type	Window manager
License	GPLv2+
Website	http://sawfish.tuxfamily.org/

Sawfish is a window manager for the X Window System. Its aim is simply to manage windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible. It has a GUI with which many kinds of configuration can be done. For example,

It can automatically alter a particular window's position, behavior and appearance.
Bind keys.

Distinctively, Sawfish uses a Lisp-like scripting language, rep, for all of its code, making it particularly easy to customize, or program many kinds of behavior, responding to window creation, deletion, or any other changes. It can translate keyboard inputs to windows altogether, overcoming unconfigurable applications.

History

Sawfish was first called Sawmill. The name was changed because another software program had the same name. It was the standard window manager of the GNOME desktop environment until it was replaced by Metacity in Gnome 2.2.^[3]

The development had stopped, but the community restarted it in 2007.

References

↑ "Sawfish download current". Sawfish. 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2012-03-23.
↑ "Sawfish download current". Sawfish. 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2012-03-23.
↑ Cumming, Murray (February 2003). "Metacity Window Manager". GNOME 2.2.0 Release Notes. Gnome. Retrieved 2007-02-19.
↑ "X Window Emacs Manager", Emacs wiki .

External links

Official website
"Comparison of extensible window managers", Sawfish (Wiki), Wikia — comparison of Sawfish, Awesome, Xmonad, StumpWM, and Qtile.

Desktop environments and window managers for the X Window System

Desktop environments
(Comparison)

GTK+-based	GNOME LXDE MATE ROX Desktop Sugar Xfce

Qt-based	KDE SC Razor-qt Trinity

Motif-based	CDE IRIX Interactive Desktop VUE

Other	EDE (FLTK-based) Étoilé (GNUstep-based) Mezzo OpenWindows (OLIT-based) UDE

Graphical shells

X window managers
(Comparison)

Compositing	Compiz KWin Metacity Mutter Xfwm

Tiling	awesome dwm i3 Ion larswm PWM ratpoison wmii xmonad

Stacking	4Dwm 9wm AfterStep amiwm Blackbox cwm Fluxbox FLWM FVWM Hackedbox IceWM JWM Matchbox Motif Window Manager olwm Openbox PekWM Sawfish twm Window Maker

Wayland compositors

KWin
Mutter

Components

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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Sawfish (window manager)

History

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References

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