The Fast Light Window Manager is an
X window manager
An X window manager is a window manager that runs on top of the X Window System, a windowing system mainly used on Unix-like systems.
Unlike MacOS Classic, macOS, and Microsoft Windows platforms (excepting Microsoft Windows explorer.exe shel ...
that is based on
FLTK
Fast Light Toolkit (FLTK) is a cross-platform widget (graphical control element) library for graphical user interfaces (GUIs), developed by Bill Spitzak and others. Made to accommodate 3D graphics programming, it has an interface to OpenGL, but ...
. FLWM is the default window manager for
Tiny Core Linux
Tiny Core Linux (TCL) is a minimal Linux kernel based operating system focusing on providing a base system using BusyBox and FLTK. It was developed by Robert Shingledecker, who was previously the lead developer of Damn Small Linux. The distribu ...
. FLWM was influenced by
WM2.
Features
Features of the FLWM window manager include:
* Small (amd64: 43.8 kB Package Size, 118.0 kB Installed Size, i386: 45.3 kB Package Size, 121.0 kB Installed Size)
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* Window decorations include border
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s and a vertical titlebar
In computing, a window is a Graphical widget, graphical control element. It consists of a visual area containing some of the graphical user interface of the program it belongs to and is framed by a #Window decoration, window decoration. It usuall ...
* sloppy focus with click to focus (no autoraise)
* Multiple desktops
* Desktop switching via menu or by using the keyboard
* No support for themes. Colors are customizable via command line arguments.
See also
* Comparison of X window managers
References
External links
*
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Free X window managers
Software that uses FLTK
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