twm

Twm ( Tom 's Window Manager or Tab Window Manager) is a window manager for the X Window System. Advantages are its small size (about 140 KB) and its stability. Compared to most other window managers be featured is minimalist, because twm is limited exclusively to the management of windows and not trying to be an interface for the operating system functions.

Although he is usually only used today, if no other window manager is available, there are still a small group of users, the twm appreciate thanks to its simplicity, extensibility, and light weight - not least because he directly in the C programming language is written and only the core functions of Xlib used instead of a comprehensive toolkit such as GTK or Qt to use. In the X.Org reference implementation of the X Window System from the twm is still the default window manager and many other implementations here. The Knoppix live Linux starts the twm example, if the computer does not have enough RAM for complicated Window Manager.

Twm is free software and is available (also called " X11 license" to prevent confusion with other licenses of MIT) under the MIT license.

History

1987 Tom wrote the first load range twm version out of frustration with the then standard window manager uwm. Twm is one of the oldest window managers. Since X11R4 (1989 ) it is the default window manager for the X Window System, running more on any system that is installed on the X11.

As twm was transferred to the X Window System, you have renamed it in Tab Window Manager. This is due to the fact that the title does not always go over the entire width of the window, but is only so long, to accommodate the titles. The title line will look like tabs from ( engl. tab). Another special feature is the method for changing the window size. Pressing a button in the title bar or otherwise is switched into a special mode. Then, the mouse drawn across one of the window limits, this can be displaced (and possibly at right angles to a stationary limit). The advantage is that you just take time-consuming and click a boundary or a corner does not have to use the mouse to resize the window.