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| Sawfish | |
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 Screenshot of Sawfish | |
| Developers | John Harper (retired), Janek Kozicki (2007), Christopher Bratusek, Sawfish community |
| Initial release | January 1, 2000; 26 years ago (2000-01-01) |
| Stable release | 1.13.0[1]  / 24 December 2021 |
| Preview release | 1.12.90[2] / 25 August 2017 |
| Written in | C,Lisp |
| Operating system | Linux,FreeBSD,NetBSD,OpenBSD,Unix,Mac OS X |
| Type | Window manager |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Website | sawfish |
| Repository | |
Sawfish is awindow manager for theX Window System. It aims to manage windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible. It is able to match a window by multiple criteria such as application, size or role, and based on this, can change the window's position, appearance, or behavior. This allows for highly customized window handling such asweb browser windows opening full-screen without borders on a secondarymonitor, a defaultterminal emulator window displaying full-screen at the desktop level, and alldialog box windows under a certain size opening on the lower right corner of the main monitor while larger ones are centered.
Sawfish uses aLisp-likescripting language,rep, for all of its code and configuration, making it particularly easy to customize, or program many kinds of behavior, responding to window creation, deletion, or any other changes. There is aGUI configuration utility for users who do not wish to edit configuration files directly.
Sawfish was first calledSawmill. The name was changed becauseanother software program had the same name. It was the standard window manager of theGNOMEdesktop environment until it was replaced byMetacity in Gnome 2.2.[3]
The development had stopped, but the community restarted it in 2007.[citation needed]
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