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| Developer(s) | Kenichi Kourai, Ivan Kormanov |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 1.1.12-10  / 13 March 2011 |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Type | Window manager |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later[1] |
| Website | ahinea |
Qvwm is awindow manager,[2] intended as a reimplementation of theWindows 95 interface forLinux systems. Released in 1996 under theGNU General Public License. The project's name comes from wordplay references to Japanese words and Roman numbers.[3] In 2000,Linux Format called Qvwm "an unusually impressive imposter".[4]
Unlike Windows 95'sregistry, Qvwm uses a textual configuration file. Qvwm includesvirtual desktops, a feature lacking in Windows 95. One reviewer criticized this practice as "against qvwm's stated purpose."[5] Apart from standardX libraries, the onlysoftware library it depends on isX PixMap (libxpm). The developers had intended to develop a full class library calledlibqv but this never occurred.
The original author of Qvwm, Kenichi Kourai, no longer maintains it, but in 2006 the project was picked up by Ivan Kurmanov, who appliedpatches made by theDebian project and added features of his own.
Qvwm was included in Debian since 1999[6] but was removed in early 2009 because of the lack of updates as well as usingdeprecated libraries.[7]
In 2020, the source code of Qvwm is available onGitHub (under the user Asveikau) so this window manager can be compile-install to Linux (BSDs,Minix, etc.) through "configure, make, install" method (or any method similar or better than this).[8]
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