Software:swm

Short description: X Window System window manager

For the disk image format, see Windows Imaging Format. For other uses of "SWM", see SWM (disambiguation).

swm (the Solbourne window manager) is an X Window System window manager developed by Tom LaStrange at Solbourne Computer in 1990. The most important innovation of swm was the introduction of the virtual desktop. It also introduced a primitive form of session management (restoring programs in use at the time of shutdown) to X.

References

• Thomas E. LaStrange (1990) swm: An X window manager shell. USENIX Summer.
• http://users.polytech.unice.fr/~buffa/cours/X11_Motif/motif-faq/part4/faq-doc-1.html