A compositing manager, or compositor, is software that provides applications with an off-screen buffer for each window. The compositing manager composites...
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window managers are modular,[vague] people can use others,[vague] such as Compiz (a 3D compositing window manager), which replaces the window manager...
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Desktop Window Manager (DWM, previously Desktop Compositing Engine or DCE) is the compositing window manager in Microsoft Windows since Windows Vista that...
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Enlightenment, also known simply as E, is a compositing window manager for the X Window System. Since version 0.20, Enlightenment also supports Wayland...
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stacking window manager (also called floating window manager) is a window manager that draws and allows windows to overlap, without using a compositing algorithm...
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2008). Compositing support can be added to non-compositing window managers, through the use of compositors such as compton. A virtual window manager is a...
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Compiz (redirect from Beryl (window manager))
(/kɒmpɪz/) is a compositing window manager for the X Window System, using 3D graphics hardware to create fast compositing desktop effects for window management...
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implementation it relies on a second program, the compositing window manager, to do the compositing. Examples are Mutter or KWin. Notable examples of...
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involving multiple events Compositing, combining of visual elements from separate sources into single images Digital compositing Composite pattern, a software...
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tiling window manager is a window manager with the organization of the screen often dependant on mathematical formulas to organise the windows into a...
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Mutter (software) (redirect from Mutter (window manager))
window manager initially designed and implemented for the X Window System, but then evolved to be a Wayland compositor. It became the default window manager...
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Quartz Compositor (redirect from WindowServer)
Quartz Compositor is the display server (and at the same time the compositing window manager) in macOS. It is responsible for presenting and maintaining rasterized...
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Live-action shooting for compositing is variously called "chroma key", "blue screen", "green screen" and other names. Today, most compositing is achieved through...
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failure Compositing software, used in film post-production for compositing, special effects, and color correction Compositing window manager, a software...
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X video extension (category X Window extensions)
drawing of windows using an OpenGL Framebuffer Object or pbuffer. Metacity, an X window manager uses compositing in this way. The compositing can also make...
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KWin (category Compositing window managers)
window manager for the X Window System and a Wayland compositor. It is released as a part of KDE Plasma, for which it is the default window manager....
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X, OpenGL and XVideo applications and graphical effects by a compositing window manager such as Compiz or Beryl. The project was started by David Reveman...
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major requirements to run older versions of Avant Window Navigator is a compositing window manager. At least version 0.4.0-2 in the Debian repos has either...
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GLX (category X Window extensions)
2006, the popularization of the nested Xgl X server and Compiz compositing window manager lead to the development of Accelerated Indirect GLX (AIGLX). AIGLX...
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interface) Compiz Compositing window manager Desktop Window Manager Development of Windows 7 Development of Windows Vista Features new to Windows 7 Features...
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Composition (redirect from Composited)
key on a computer keyboard Compositing window manager a component of a computer's graphical user interface that draws windows and/or their borders Function...
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dynamic window manager for the X Window System developed in the C and Lua programming languages. Lua is also used for configuring and extending the window manager...
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Xpra (category X Window programs)
compositing window manager to an Xvfb display server. However, instead of combining the window images to present on the screen, it directs the window...
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using windows as one of its main "metaphors" is called a windowing system, whose main components are the display server and the window manager. The idea...
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to render the desktop and applications using Desktop Window Manager, a compositing window manager running on top of Direct3D. It also supports new DXGI...
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Xfce (category Compositing window managers)
or Tilda. Xfwm is a window manager, supporting custom themes. Starting with version 4.2, Xfwm integrates its own compositing manager. A file searching tool...
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Wayland (protocol) (redirect from Wayland (display manager))
Wayland compositor, because it additionally performs the task of a compositing window manager. Wayland is developed by a group of volunteers initially led by...
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This article compares variety of different X window managers. For an introduction to the topic, see X Window System. LGPL-2.1-only with naming restrictions...
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browser Headless computer Headless content management system Compositing window manager Clarification of "headless Linux" Michael Wiles (2010) Headless...
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life and reduces performance. Windows Aero requires a compositing window manager called Desktop Window Manager. Windows Shell offers a new range of organization...
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