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.
http://users.polytech.unice.fr/~buffa/cours/X11_Motif/motif-faq/part4/faq-doc-1.html

Desktop environments, widget toolkits, and window managers based on the X Window System or Wayland

Desktop
environments
(comparison)

GTK+-based	Cinnamon GNOME GPE LXDE MATE Pantheon ROX Desktop Sugar Xfce

Qt-based	Hawaii KDE SC LXQt OPIE Razor-qt Trinity

Motif-based	CDE IRIX Interactive Desktop VUE

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

Graphical
shells

X window
managers
(comparison)

Compositing	Compiz KWin Metacity Muffin Mutter Xfwm

Tiling	awesome bspwm dwm i3 Ion larswm ratpoison StumpWM wmii xmonad

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

Wayland
compositors

Components

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