Window Maker is a free and open-source window manager for the X Window System Created by Window Maker developers Window Maker has a reputation for being fast, efficient and highly stable. Window Maker has been characterized as reproducing “the elegant look and feel of the NeXTstep GUI” and is noted as “easy to configure and easy to use.” A graphical tool called Wprefs is included and can be used to configure most aspects of the UI. The interface tends towards a minimalist, high performance environment directly supporting XPM, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and PPM icons with an alpha-channel and a right-click, sliding-scrolling application menu system which can throw off pinnable menus, along with window-icon miniaturization and other animations on multiple desktops. Menus and preferences can be changed without restarting. As with most window managers it supports themes and many are available. Owing to its NeXT inspiration, Window Maker has a dock like MacOS, but Window Maker’s look and feel hews mostly to that of its NeXT forebear….
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