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 A screenshot of JWM on Puppy Linux | |
| Developer(s) | Joe Wingbermuehle |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 0.1 / December 22, 2003 // 1.0 / November 13, 2005 |
| Stable release | 2.4.3[1] 
/ 22 October 2022 |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Type | Window manager |
| License | 2016: MIT[a] 2005: GPL-2.0-only[b] |
| Website | joewing |
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), and is packaged by many Linux distributions, such as: Debian,[2] Fedora,[3] and openSUSE.[4]
See also
- Comparison of X window managers
- Fluxbox, Openbox, IceWM and other lightweight window managers
Notes
References
Further reading
- Hagen Höpfner (August 2005) Simple AND Light. JWM Window Manager, Linux Magazine, issue 57, pp. 80–82
External links
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