The Window Maker Window Manager
To demonstrate some of the features that are common to most lightweight window managers, we’ll now look at Window Maker, one of the most popular desktops for more advanced users who prefer to avoid all the bells and whistles—and their attendant heavy processor and memory load—of environments like KDE and GNOME.
Window Maker is designed to recall the appearance and function of the now defunct desktop for the NeXTSTEP operating system, which many hail as one of the most innovative and functional desktops ever designed, and which became the basis years after its heyday for Mac OS X. Many of the features we know today as “Mac features,” such as the Dock of Mac OS X, originally appeared in NeXTSTEP, and are thus replicated ...
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