A window manager is an X client responsible for positioning windows on the screen. Title bars, displaying messages to the user focusing windows , and reading customized key strokes and mouse behaviour.
Some of the commonly used window managers are Kwin metacity, MWM, TWM, sawfish, enlightenment and blackbox KWin is the default window manager for the k desktop environment (more on desktop environments in a while), and metacity is the window manger for the Gnome desktop environment. There are plenty of window managers you can download and install to change the look and feel of Linux. It is possible to give a whole new avatar to your computer with the different window managers and desktop environments.
Each window manager is created with a different focus. One can be fast and slick, another navigable, another customizable and another simply minimalist. And for the “I want windows” people, there are also window managers that ape anything from windows 3.11 to XP.
Some of the commonly used window managers are Kwin metacity, MWM, TWM, sawfish, enlightenment and blackbox KWin is the default window manager for the k desktop environment (more on desktop environments in a while), and metacity is the window manger for the Gnome desktop environment. There are plenty of window managers you can download and install to change the look and feel of Linux. It is possible to give a whole new avatar to your computer with the different window managers and desktop environments.
Each window manager is created with a different focus. One can be fast and slick, another navigable, another customizable and another simply minimalist. And for the “I want windows” people, there are also window managers that ape anything from windows 3.11 to XP.
