Amiwm

In computing, the AMIga Window Manager (amiwm) is a stacking window manager for the X Window System written by Marcus Comstedt.^[2]

Amiwm
Developer(s)	Marcus Comstedt
Stable release	0.21pl2[1]  / 20 July 2010
Type	Window manager
License	Proprietary[a]
Website	http://www.lysator.liu.se/~marcus/amiwm.html

The window manager emulates the Amiga Workbench and includes support for multiple virtual screens like the AmigaOS, but doesn't offer more functionality than standard Workbench.^[3] By the words of its author, "the purpose of amiwm is to make life more pleasant for Amiga-freaks like myself who has/wants to use UNIX workstations once in a while".^[4] AmiWM was not updated for years since the 1998 release, yet Linux Format magazine rated it as fast and reliable in 2007.^[5] Although Marcus Comstedt included new features like support for AmigaOS 3.5 icons during internal development,^[6] a new version was not released until 2010.^[7]

Features

Features of the amiwm window manager include:

• Supports iconification of running tasks
• Window borders
• Window titlebars
• Titlebar buttons for menu, minimize, maximize, and close
• Desktop shortcuts

Notes

1. Source code available.