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WindowMaker Development Resumes, Has First Release Since 2006

Posted by timothy on from the now-where-was-I dept.

First time accepted submitter brad-x writes "A new team of developers has recently picked up development of WindowMaker, and they've added many new features, including improved support for the freedesktop standard menu layout and Mac OS X style application and window switching from the keyboard, culminating in a new release, 0.95.2. A basic changelog is available on the newly redesigned website."

2 of 192 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Is WindowMaker still relevant? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sometimes all you want is a window manager. You don't need an integrated file manager, dvd burner or media player. WindowMaker is tremendously fast, stable and memory efficient.

  2. Re:Woooo! by ByOhTek · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dude, Window Maker is awesome as a light weight desktop system. 3

    Aside from compatibility improvements, I say don't fix what isn't broken.

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