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Window manager variety

Posted Apr 12, 2012 11:23 UTC (Thu) by cortana (subscriber, #24596)
In reply to: Window manager variety by cwng
Parent article: LFCS 2012: X and Wayland

Those are replacing what Windows calls the "shell" and what is commonly called Explorer. They don't, AFAIK, replace what we would call the Window Manager and what most people don't have a name for, because it can't be replaced.

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Posted Apr 12, 2012 11:45 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

There were true window manager customizers. WindowBlinds is the most known: http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/screenshots...

I distinctly remember being able to do things like collapsing windows to title bars by triple-clicking or adding extra buttons to window titlebars.

Window manager variety

Posted Apr 16, 2012 18:51 UTC (Mon) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link]

WindowBlinds was not a replacement window manager for Windows. It merely did some hackery to change some of the look and some behaviors and it always ran on top of the existing WM. Think of it more like a very-heavy theme. In the end things like window lists, window position and stacking order were still the same. In addition, it was awfully slow and memory hungry.