JWM
Developer(s)Joe Wingbermuehle
Initial release0.1 / December 22, 2003 (2003-12-22) // 1.0 / November 13, 2005 (2005-11-13)
Stable release
2.4.3[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 22 October 2022
Written inC
Operating systemUnix-like
TypeWindow manager
License2016: MIT[lower-alpha 1]
2005: GPL-2.0-only[lower-alpha 2]
Websitejoewing.net/projects/jwm/

JWM (Joe's Window Manager) is a lightweight stacking window manager for the X Window System written by Joe Wingbermuehle. JWM is written in C and uses only Xlib at a minimum. Configuration is done by editing an XML file; no graphical configuration is necessary or supplied.

Support for the following can be added as compile-time options:

It provides an interface similar to Windows 98 and can support some GNOME, Motif and Extended Window Manager Hints.

JWM is the default window manager used in Damn Small Linux version 4.x, Puppy Linux and SliTaz (< 2.0). It is used also in an edition of Manjaro Linux.[2]

See also

Notes

  1. MIT since 2016-07-22, version 2.3.6.
  2. GPL-2.0-only from 2005-09-05 until 2016-07-02, version 2.3.5.

References

  1. "v2.4.3".
  2. "Manjaro JWM". Archived from the original on 3 December 2017. Retrieved 18 December 2015.

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