Swm

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swm (the Solbourne window manager) is an X Window System window manager developed by Tom LaStrange at Solbourne Computer in 1990. The most important innovation of swm was the introduction of the virtual desktop. It also introduced a primitive form of session management (restoring programs in use at the time of shutdown) to X.

Another window manager with a similar name is the small window manager, developed for use in systems with little memory and small screens.

References

Thomas E. LaStrange (1990) swm: An X window manager shell. USENIX Summer.

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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