twm

Tab Window Manager.

A window manager for the X Window System. Twm provides

titlebars, shaped windows, several forms of icon management,

user-defined macro functions, click-to-type and

pointer-driven keyboard focus, and user-specified key and

pointer button bindings. It can be extensively configured by

a startup file.

Twm was written by Tom LaStrange, Solbourne Computer; Jim

Fulton, MIT X Consortium; Steve Pitschke, StardentComputer; Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium; Dave Sternlicht,

MIT X Consortium; Dave Payne, Apple Computer.

An extended version, vtwm, provides a virtual desktop.

[Why "Tab"?]

(1995-02-14)