Lightweight window manager
lwm is a lightweight X11 window manager written by Elliott Hughes. It was based upon the 9wm window manager.
Features
Features of the *lightweight window manager* are:
- A stacking window manager
- Written in C
- Uses the xlib toolkit
- Freely available under the GNU General Public Licence
- A right click on the desktop launches a terminal emulator
- A middle click enables selection of ACTIVE windows
- No menubar
- window borders provide window motion
- Windows have titlebars
- No maximize facility
- No multiple desktop facilities
- No theme support
- No keyboard equivalents for some operations
- Three button mouse functionality is required
- Can be compiled to use either a click to focus or sloppy focus model
- Applications launched via a terminal only
- Lightweight - Has few dependencies and rated as a pinhammer on the hammer scale
- Not accessibility friendly - utilizes middleclick and rightclick and has no keyboard equivalents for some operations