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Window Maker is an X11 window manager originally designed to provide integration support for the GNUstep Desktop Environment. In every way possible, it reproduces the elegant look and feel of the NEXTSTEP[tm] user interface. It is fast, feature rich, easy to configure, and easy to use. It is also free software, with contributions being made by programmers from around the world.

Window Maker includes compatibility options which allow it to work with other popular desktop environments, namely GNOME and KDE, and comes with a powerful GUI configuration editor, called WPrefs, which removes the need to edit text-based config files by hand. Please see the features section for more specifics on what Window Maker can do, and how it compares with other popular window managers.

If you have additional questions regarding Window Maker, we urge you to read through the Frequently Asked Questions list. Our documentation section contains a detailed user guide and tutorial. If the answer to your question is not available in either of these areas, then our searchable Mailing Lists will undoubtedly contain what you are looking for.

   RELEASE INFO AND LATEST NEWS
CODE BASE LATEST VERSION DOWNLOAD INFORMATION
WM (stable) 0.92.0 Download source as:
( gzip | bzip2 | patch )

We do not provide our own binary packages. However, third parties sometimes make them available. You can visit the Fedora Linux website for up-to-date .rpm's (including the latest Window Maker release for Red Hat 9). Debian includes up-to-date .deb's in its unstable tree. The source code should compile without modification on many other Unix platforms.

Read the ChangeLog for what's new in the latest release!

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Release Notes:
  • As of 0.90.0, libXft2 is a required library.
  • Extra themes and icons can be found in the Window Maker Extras tarball

Downtime Explanation
posted on 2006-09-11 19:15:01 by teknix

    It has unfortunately taken us a lot longer than expected to restore the site after a recent hardware upgrade, and this is the reason the site was unavailable for so long. Web and FTP downloads are working again. The mailing lists and CVS are still currently unavailable, but we're working on getting them back up and running as soon as possible. Stay tuned.
Window Maker 0.92.0 released
posted on 2005-07-03 14:30:56 by dan

    This new release includes the following changes:
  • added support for X Input Methods
  • improved hiding/unhiding animations to be quicker and do less icon shuffling
  • fixed gcc and libxft complilation issues
  • fixed many bugs

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