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I am trying to study how window managers operate. I am looking for a
resource on the internet which describes all the things that a window
manager has to do. I have looked at some small window managers such as
wm2, lwm, 9wm, etc. I am wondering if these are the simplest window
managers possible? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Quote:>I have looked at some small window managers such as
>wm2, lwm, 9wm, etc. I am wondering if these are the simplest window
>managers possible? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The problem is that "simplest possible" has to do with human concerns, such as
what level of functionality people want.  Moving, raising/lowering, and
resizing windows are the bare minimums.  Hiding/iconifying is also common.
Generally, some sort of border to handle the window by is added.  Most of those
could probably be done away with to simplify.... wm2 and flwm seem pretty
simple to examine the source of; also wm might be worth examining-- it's simple
too, and they each do just about the least for handling windows possible.
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Take a look at BlackBox and twm.  Go to freshmeat.net and search.

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