olwm

olwm
olvwm and OpenWindows on Solaris
Developer(s)	Sun Microsystems
Development status	Discontinued
Operating system	Solaris / SunOS
Platform	IA-32, PowerPC, SPARC, x86, x86-64
Type	Stacking window manager

olwm (OPEN LOOK Window Manager) was the default stacking window manager for OpenWindows, the original desktop environment included with SunOS and Solaris. Its unique characteristic is its implementation of the OPEN LOOK look and feel.

Scott Oaks developed a variant of olwm, called olvwm (the OPEN LOOK Virtual Window Manager), implements a virtual root window with dimensions greater than those of the video display.^[1]

References

^ Oaks, Scott. "OLVWM -- An OPEN LOOK Virtual Window Manager". Archived from the original on 2008-02-01. http://web.archive.org/web/2008020106 0827/http://home.nyc.rr.com/twopks/ol vwm/. Retrieved 2009-04-03.

Window management topics

Methods	Tiling Stacking Dynamic Compositing Re-parenting

Tiling examples	awesome dwm i3 PWM Ion wmii ratpoison xmonad Xerox Star Windows 1.0 GEM (2.0 and later)

Stacking examples	amiwm twm cwm mwm FVWM Enlightenment Blackbox Presentation Manager Windows 2.0 Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows ME Windows NT (until Windows XP) Mac OS 9 and earlier GEM 1.1 WindowLab Xerox Alto

Compositing examples	Beryl Compiz Desktop Window Manager (with Windows Aero) Metacity Mutter KWin Aqua (with the Quartz Compositor)

Systems with WMs	Amiga OS Mac OS OS/2 Xerox PARC Xerox Alto Xerox Star Microsoft Windows Atari TOS RISC OS OpenVMS

Components	Window manager Window decorator Dock Title bar Task bar Notification Area Pager

Related reading	Windowing system Desktop environment GUI widget X Window System X window manager Wayland Virtual desktop OpenGL DirectX GPU Mouse Keyboard WIMP GUI Widget toolkit Turbo Vision Qt GTK AIGLX XGL Shell (computing) Painter's algorithm Resolution independence

See also

References