Sawfish
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| developer | Janek Kozicki (Maintainer), John Harper (formerly), Sawfish Community |
| Current version | 1.12.0 (August 13, 2016) |
| operating system | Linux , Unix |
| programming language | C , Lisp |
| category | Window manager |
| License | GPL ( Free Software ) |
| German speaking | Yes |
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Sawfish is a window manager
Sawfish (German sawfish) is a window manager for the X Window System, formerly known as Sawmill (German saw mill) . The name had to be changed by a third party due to trademark claims.
Sawfish uses a Lisp- like scripting language (librep) for its entire code base , which makes it easy to expand. It was the standard window manager of GNOME up to version number 2.1, where it was replaced by Metacity . Sawfish was popular with its users because it is very configurable. The decision of the GNOME developers to only use Metacity from now on was therefore very controversial.
Web links
Commons : Sawfish - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Sawfish site (English)