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href="/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle" title="Software release life cycle">Stable release</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="margin:0px;">1.0.12<sup id="cite_ref-wikidata-b506c0268681ef4641e9a500aa469302e92626bd-v18_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wikidata-b506c0268681ef4641e9a500aa469302e92626bd-v18-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-wikidata-f3f307165760e352c2c1fc2a93ba21df19fab29a-v18_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wikidata-f3f307165760e352c2c1fc2a93ba21df19fab29a-v18-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <span class="mw-valign-text-top" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q292990?uselang=en#P348" title="Edit this on Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this on Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" 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nowrap;">Written in</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/C_(programming_language)" title="C (programming language)">C</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_categories#Categorization_approaches" title="Software categories">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/X_window_manager" title="X window manager">Window manager</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/MIT_License" title="MIT License">MIT-open-group</a><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />MIT-CMU<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />XFree86-1.0<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>twm</b> (<b>Tab Window Manager</b>)<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a <a href="/wiki/X_window_manager" title="X window manager">window manager</a> for the <a href="/wiki/X_Window_System" title="X Window System">X Window System</a>. Started in 1987 by Tom LaStrange, it has been the standard window manager for the X Window System since version X11R4. The name originally stood for <b>Tom's Window Manager</b>, but the software was renamed Tab Window Manager by the <a href="/wiki/X_Consortium" class="mw-redirect" title="X Consortium">X Consortium</a> when they adopted it in 1989. twm is a <a href="/wiki/Stacking_window_manager" title="Stacking window manager">stacking window manager</a> that provides title bars, shaped windows and icon management. It is highly configurable and extensible. </p><p>twm was a breakthrough achievement in the early years, but has been superseded by other window managers, which unlike twm, use a <a href="/wiki/Widget_toolkit" title="Widget toolkit">widget toolkit</a> rather than a combination of the <a href="/wiki/X_Toolkit_Intrinsics" title="X Toolkit Intrinsics">X Toolkit Intrinsics</a> and <a href="/wiki/XRandR" class="mw-redirect" title="XRandR">XRandR</a>. </p><p>Various other window managers—such as <a href="/wiki/Vtwm" title="Vtwm">vtwm</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tvtwm" title="Tvtwm">tvtwm</a>, <a href="/wiki/CTWM" title="CTWM">CTWM</a>, and <a href="/wiki/FVWM" title="FVWM">FVWM</a>—were built on twm's <a href="/wiki/Source_code" title="Source code">source code</a>. </p><p>twm is still standard with <a href="/wiki/X.Org_Server" title="X.Org Server">X.Org Server</a>, and is available as part of many <a href="/wiki/X_Window_System" title="X Window System">X Window System</a> implementations. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Usage">Usage</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Twm&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Usage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Frame"><a href="/wiki/File:Twm-screenshot-20050401.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Twm-screenshot-20050401.png" decoding="async" width="500" height="155" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="155" /></a><figcaption>twm with <a href="/wiki/X.Org_Foundation#Fields_of_activity" title="X.Org Foundation">xcalc</a> and <a href="/wiki/Xterm" title="Xterm">xterm</a>, the xterm window being in <a href="/wiki/Focus_(computing)" title="Focus (computing)">focus</a>. <a href="/wiki/X.Org_Foundation#Fields_of_activity" title="X.Org Foundation">xclock</a> is iconified.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Twm_menu.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Twm_menu.png" decoding="async" width="135" height="431" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="135" data-file-height="431" /></a><figcaption>twm menu</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><video id="mwe_player_0" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/TWM_without_configuration.ogv/220px--TWM_without_configuration.ogv.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" height="165" data-durationhint="81" data-mwtitle="TWM_without_configuration.ogv" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:TWM_without_configuration.ogv"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/52/TWM_without_configuration.ogv/TWM_without_configuration.ogv.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="480" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/52/TWM_without_configuration.ogv/TWM_without_configuration.ogv.720p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="720p.vp9.webm" data-width="960" data-height="720" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/TWM_without_configuration.ogv" type="video/ogg; codecs="theora"" data-width="1024" data-height="768" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/52/TWM_without_configuration.ogv/TWM_without_configuration.ogv.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="320" data-height="240" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/52/TWM_without_configuration.ogv/TWM_without_configuration.ogv.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="480" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/52/TWM_without_configuration.ogv/TWM_without_configuration.ogv.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="480" data-height="360" /></video></span><figcaption>Twm Xsession running on <a href="/wiki/Debian" title="Debian">Debian</a> 7 <a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a></figcaption></figure> <p>twm's interface is different from modern common X window managers and <a href="/wiki/Desktop_environment" title="Desktop environment">desktop environments</a> many of which tend to work similarly to the <a href="/wiki/Apple_Macintosh" class="mw-redirect" title="Apple Macintosh">Apple Macintosh</a> or <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a>. New users often find twm difficult without reading the <a href="/wiki/Man_page" title="Man page">manual</a> page.<sup id="cite_ref-manpage_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-manpage-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the default configuration of twm, the title bar has two buttons: </p> <ul><li><i>Resize button</i> (nested squares): the user clicks here, drags the mouse pointer to the edge to be moved, then releases when the window is the desired size.</li> <li><i>Iconify button</i> (circle): reduces the window to an icon.</li></ul> <p>There is no title bar button to close a window. A left click on the desktop brings up a menu, which includes an option to delete (close) a window. Window close functionality for the titlebar can be configured in the <code>.twmrc</code> file: </p> <dl><dd>See <span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wikibooks-logo-en-noslogan.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Wikibooks-logo-en-noslogan.svg/16px-Wikibooks-logo-en-noslogan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Wikibooks-logo-en-noslogan.svg/24px-Wikibooks-logo-en-noslogan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Wikibooks-logo-en-noslogan.svg/32px-Wikibooks-logo-en-noslogan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="400" /></a></span> <a href="https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Guide_to_X11/Window_Managers/twm#Closing_program_windows_in_twm" class="extiw" title="wikibooks:Guide to X11/Window Managers/twm">Closing program windows in twm</a> at Wikibooks.</dd></dl> <p>A <i>left click</i> on the title bar brings the window to the top of the window stack; a <i>middle click</i> moves the window; a <i>right click</i> sends the window to the bottom of the window stack. </p><p>Window <a href="/wiki/Focus_(computing)" title="Focus (computing)">focus</a> follows the <a href="/wiki/Mouse_(computing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mouse (computing)">mouse</a> pointer (point-to-focus), rather than being on whichever window was clicked last (<a href="/wiki/Click-to-focus" class="mw-redirect" title="Click-to-focus">click-to-focus</a>). </p><p>When a new window is created, a 3×3 grid is displayed following the mouse pointer, waiting for the user to click where the window should appear — left-click to appear in that position with that size, middle-click to resize the window before its creation, right-click to appear at that position but long enough vertically to reach the bottom of the screen. </p><p>Note that any of the above may be changed with appropriate changes to the configuration file. (The system file is typically <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886049734">.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}</style><span class="monospaced">/etc/X11/twm/system.twmrc</span> and the user file is typically <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">~/.twmrc</span> .)<sup id="cite_ref-manpage_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-manpage-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Twm&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>twm was written as a replacement for the <a href="/wiki/Ultrix_Window_Manager" title="Ultrix Window Manager">uwm</a> window manager by Tom LaStrange while he was working at <a href="/wiki/Evans_%26_Sutherland" title="Evans & Sutherland">Evans & Sutherland</a>, which was part of the X Consortium: "I sat down at my monochrome <a href="/wiki/Sun-3" title="Sun-3">Sun 3/50</a> and typed <code><a href="/wiki/Vi_(text_editor)" title="Vi (text editor)">vi</a> twm.c</code> and then opened the X11 documentation. twm was my first X program. About six months later, I convinced my manager to let me send a copy to the comp.windows.x newsgroup for testing."<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A version for X11R1 was published on the <a href="/wiki/Usenet" title="Usenet">Usenet</a> newsgroup <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">comp.unix.sources</span> on June 13, 1988<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Months later, Jim Fulton of the X Consortium (which was at the time part of <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">MIT</a>) approached Evans and Sutherland and asked them to turn over the code maintenance to the <a href="/wiki/X_Window_System#The_MIT_X_Consortium_and_the_X_Consortium.2C_Inc." title="X Window System">X Consortium</a> and Fulton then made it compliant with the nascent <a href="/wiki/Inter-Client_Communication_Conventions_Manual" title="Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual">Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual</a>. Subsequently, twm was released as the standard sample window manager for X11R4, replacing <a href="/wiki/Ultrix_Window_Manager" title="Ultrix Window Manager">uwm</a>. </p><p>According to Fulton, the word "tab" was picked because it conveniently started with 'T' and it put the emphasis on the squeezing feature window title bars, which made them look like folders with tabs. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Authors">Authors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Twm&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Authors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>twm was originally written by Tom LaStrange. 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