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Type of system software
A window manager is system software that controls the placement and appearance of windows within a windowing system in a graphical user interface. Most window managers are designed to help provide a desktop environment. They work in conjunction with the underlying graphical system that provides required functionality—support for graphics hardware, pointing devices, and a keyboard—and are often written and created using a widget toolkit. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Window managerA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Achieving Broadband Microwave Shielding, Thermal Management, and Smart Window in Energy‐Efficient BuildingsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Interactive Computing SeriesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: A taxonomy of window manager user interfacesCited 57 times
- Go sideways: TaskbarA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Compositing managerA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A piece of software that manages the layout of windows on the user's display.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
A taxonomy of window manager user interfaces
Window-Masked Segmented Digital Clock Manager-FPGA-Based Digital Pulsewidth Modulator Technique
A New Window Into Nurse Manager Development
WHIM, the Window Handler and Input Manager
WindowSpace: A Web-Based XR Window Manager for Interacting with 2D Windows in Immersive 3D Space
A window manager for the UCSD p-System
A Window Manager for UNIX
Window Manager Designed for Cloud Services with Function of Drawing Window Frame Edge
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
Interactive Computing SeriesKenneth C. Laudon · 1997
Mastering today's softwareEdward G. Martin, Charles S. Parker · 1992
I-SeriesStephen Haag · 2001
Course ILTInstructor Led Training · 2002
Learning to use Windows applicationsGary B. Shelly · 1994
Information systems literacyHossein Bidgoli · 1993
Active DirectoryRobbie Allen, Joe Richards · 2003
Group policyJeremy Moskowitz · 2010
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