The Fast Light Window Manager is a
stacking window manager
A stacking window manager (also called floating window manager) is a window manager that draws and allows windows to overlap, without using a compositing algorithm. All window managers that allow the overlapping of windows but are not compositing ...
written in
C++ and available for redistribution under the terms of the
GNU General Public Licence
The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses that guarantee end users the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software. The license was the first copyleft for general us ...
. FLWM is the default window manager for
Tiny Core Linux.
Features
Features of the FLWM window manager include:
* Small (i386: 43.6 kB package, 156.0 kB installed, ia64: 58.1 kB package, 216.0 kB installed)
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* Stacking windows
* Written in C++
* Freely redistributable under the terms of the GPL-2.0-or-later license
* Based on the FLTK toolkit
* Window decorations include border
Borders are usually defined as geographical boundaries, imposed either by features such as oceans and terrain, or by political entities such as governments, sovereign states, federated states, and other subnational entities. Political bo ...
s and a vertical titlebar
* sloppy focus with click to focus (no autoraise)
* Multiple desktops
* Desktop switching via menu or through keyboard navigation
* No support for themes. Colors are customizable via command line arguments.
See also
* Comparison of X window managers
This article compares variety of different X window managers. For an introduction to the topic, see X Window System.
General information
Features
See also
* Comparison of X Window System desktop environments
* Window manager
* ...
References
External links
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Free X window managers
Software that uses FLTK
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