Also known as Tab Window Manager
twm is a window manager for the X Window System. Started in 1987 by Tom LaStrange, it has been the standard window manager for the X Window System since version X11R4. The name originally stood for '''Tom's Window Manager, but the software was renamed Tab Window Manager''' by the X Consortium when they adopted it in 1989. twm is a stacking window manager that provides title bars, shaped windows and icon management. It is highly configurable and extensible.
Key facts
- Software.name
- twm
- Software.screenshot
- File:Debian TWM Maroon.png
- Software.caption
- TWM with a classic maroon color scheme, running in Debian
- Software.author
- Tom LaStrange
- Software.released
- 1987
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.genre
- Window manager
- Software.license
- MIT-open-groupMIT-CMUXFree86-1.0
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- free software
- Image
- Twm.png
- Has use
- X window manager
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- Commons category
- Twm
- programmed in
- Q15777
- copyright license
- X11 license
- software version identifier
- 1.0.13.1
- inception
- 1987-00-00
- Commons gallery
- Twm
- operating system
- BSD
- source code repository URL
- gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/twm
- issue tracker URL
- gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/twm/-/issues
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Usage
- History
- Authors
- References
- External links
twm is a window manager for the X Window System. Started in 1987 by Tom LaStrange, it has been the standard window manager for the X Window System since version X11R4. The name originally stood for '''Tom's Window Manager, but the software was renamed Tab Window Manager''' by the X Consortium when they adopted it in 1989. twm is a stacking window manager that provides title bars, shaped windows and icon management. It is highly configurable and extensible.
twm was a breakthrough achievement in the early years, but has been superseded by other window managers which, unlike twm, use a widget toolkit rather than a combination of the X Toolkit Intrinsics and XRandR.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “twm” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.