Window Managers for Solaris
A Window Manager is a program that controls the features of the GUI. The windowing system uses the Window Manager to keep track of the location of each window on the desktop. Operations such as opening, closing, moving, resizing, and positioning of windows and handling windowing sessions are handled by Window Managers. X Windows uses many Window Managers to manage the various desktop environments.
A popularly known Window Manager is Motif Window Manager (mwm). Motif is the industry standard GUI, which conforms to the IEEE 1295 standard. It is used on more than 200 hardware and software platforms. It provides application developers and system vendors with the industry's most widely used environment for standardizing ...
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