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awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast, extensible and licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license.
It is primarly targeted at power users, developers and any people dealing with every day computing tasks and who want to have fine-grained control on its graphical environment.
In awesome 2.3, there’s a menu mechanism. There’s two sections to the menu, the first is the command being ran, and the rest of the bar is the menu. The first portion can take input from stdin, so any command can be typed there instead of using a menu option.
In computing, a tiling window manager is a window manager with an organization of the screen into mutually non-overlapping frames, as opposed to the more popular approach of coordinate-based stacking of overlapping objects (windows) that tries to fully emulate the desktop metaphor.
There are many TWMs to chose from, below covers the most popular ones around.
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