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Everything about KWin
KDE window manager for Wayland and previously X11
KWin is a Wayland compositor and was an X window manager. It is released as a part of KDE Plasma, for which it is the default window manager. KWin can also be used on its own or with other desktop environments. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: KWinA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: KwinThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: ‘BomBombedKwin’: How Two Card Games ModelKula,Moka, andGorokaCited 15 times
- Go sideways: Wayland (protocol)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: KDE PlasmaA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕KwinTrudie Collins · 2018
- 📕Tŭrama k'winŬn-ju Ko · 2016
- 📕Ū Paramavaṇṇasiddhi hnịn kwīn hset myāLu Mīn Han. · 1979
- 📕Leidi t'u k'winSo-hyŏn Kim · 2021
- 📕Microfinance et réduction de la pauvreté de la femme rurale en AfriqueBouyo Kwin Jim Narem · 2012
- 📕Report on the assessment of the agricultural lands within the limits of the Moulmein Municipality and of part of Ngante Kwin, Ngante Circle, 1895-96 · 1977
- 📕Report on the assessment of the agricultural lands within the limits of the Moulmein Municipality and of part of Ngante Kwin, Ngante Circle, 1895-96 · 1897
- 📕al- ḤadāthahḤilmī Budayr · 1990
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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