{{Short description|X Window System window manager}} {{for multi|the disk image format|Windows Imaging Format|other uses of "SWM"|SWM (disambiguation)}} {{no footnotes|date=May 2017}} {{primary sources|date=September 2011}} {{Lowercase title}} '''swm''' (the Solbourne window manager) is an X Window System window manager developed by Tom LaStrange at Solbourne Computer in 1990. The most important innovation of swm was the introduction of the virtual desktop. It also introduced a primitive form of session management (restoring programs in use at the time of shutdown) to X.
==References== * Thomas E. LaStrange (1990) [http://www.lastrange.com/work/swm.pdf swm: An X window manager shell] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116014941/http://www.lastrange.com/work/swm.pdf |date=2020-11-16 }}. USENIX Summer. * http://users.polytech.unice.fr/~buffa/cours/X11_Motif/motif-faq/part4/faq-doc-1.html
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Category:Free X window managers
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