KWin
Sign in to savethumb|KDE mascot, Konqi, managing and moving windows KWin is a Wayland compositor and an X window manager. It is released as a part of KDE Plasma, for which it is the default window manager. KWin can also be used on its own or with other desktop environments.
Key facts
- Software.name
- KDE Plasma 5
- Software.title
- KWin
- Software.screenshot
- Cover Switch on KDE Plasma 5.24 screenshot.png
- Software.caption
- KWin 5.24 with Cover Switch effect
- Software.developer
- KDE (Martin Grässlin, et al.)
- Software.operating_system
- Linux, BSD, other Unix-like
- Software.programming language
- C++ (Qt)
- Software.license
- GNU General Public License
- Software.website
- https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- KDE Software Compilation
- Developer
- KDE
- Official website
- invent.kde.org/frameworks/kwindowsystem
- Image
- Cover Switch on KDE Plasma 5.24 screenshot.png
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- copyright license
- GNU Lesser General Public License
- programmed in
- C++
- Commons category
- Kwin
- operating system
- Unix-like operating system
- source code repository URL
- github.com/KDE/kwin
- software version identifier
- 6.4.3
- issue tracker URL
- bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?product=kwin
- user manual URL
- community.kde.org/KWin
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- History
- Look and feel
- Compositing
- Included effects
- Accessibility
- Appearance
- Candy
- Focus
- Tools
- Window management
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|KDE mascot, Konqi, managing and moving windows KWin is a Wayland compositor and an X window manager. It is released as a part of KDE Plasma, for which it is the default window manager. KWin can also be used on its own or with other desktop environments.
KWin can be configured by scripting using QML or QtScript, both of which are based on ECMAScript.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “KWin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.