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Type of window manager
A compositing manager, or compositor, is software that provides applications with an off-screen buffer for each window, then composites these window buffers into an image representing the screen and writes the result into the display memory. A compositing window manager is a window manager that is also a compositing manager. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Compositing managerA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Heat transfer enhanced inorganic phase change material compositing carbon nanotubes for battery thermal management and thermal runaway propagation mitigationInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Deployment Guide SeriesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Go sideways: Windowing systemA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Window managerA closely related topic
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🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
Deployment Guide SeriesIBM Redbooks · 2005
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- 📕Soils As a Key Component of the Critical Zone 4Guilhem Bourrie · 2018
- 📕Agency problems and financial contractingAmir Barnea, Robert A. Haugen · 1984
- 📕Custom molding of thermoset elastomersBernie Stritzke · 2009
- 📕Études morphopédologiques, projet BagréS. Guillobez · 1978
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