Tab Window Manager.
A window manager for the X Window System . Twm provides titlebar s, shaped windows, several forms of icon management, user-defined macro functions, click-to-type and pointer-driven keyboard focus , and user-specified key and pointer button bindings. It can be extensively configured by a startup file.
Twm was written by Tom LaStrange, Solbourne Computer ; Jim Fulton, MIT X Consortium ; Steve Pitschke, Stardent Computer ; Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium; Dave Sternlicht, MIT X Consortium; Dave Payne, Apple Computer .
An extended version, vtwm , provides a virtual desktop .
[Why "Tab"?]
(1995-02-14)