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Macintosh-Like Virtual Window Manager

MLVWM or Macintosh-Like Virtual Window Manager, is an FVWM descendant created by Takashi Hasegawa while studying at Nagoya University and was written entirely in the C programming language. As its name implies, it attempts to emulate the pre-Mac OS X Macintosh look and feel in its layout and window design. Development of MLVWM stalled some time around 2000 but was resumed in 2020 by Morgan Aldridge.

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Macintosh-like Virtual Window Manager
Initial release16 November 1996 (1996-11-16)1
Stable release
0.9.42 / 9 September 2021 (2021-09-09)
Written inC
Operating systemUnix-like
Websitewww2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~y-miyata/mlvwm.html
Repositorygithub.com/morgant/mlvwm

MLVWM or Macintosh-Like Virtual Window Manager, is an FVWM descendant created by Takashi Hasegawa while studying at Nagoya University and was written entirely in the C programming language. As its name implies, it attempts to emulate the pre-Mac OS X Macintosh look and feel in its layout and window design. Development of MLVWM stalled some time around 2000 but was resumed in 2020 by Morgan Aldridge.3

MLVWM spawned a derivative known as HaZe,4 a Black-and-White (or Monochrome) window manager, although it is no longer under active development.

MLVWM is distributed as freeware5 with some files licensed as MIT License and Public domain.

Features

MLVWM runs on top of X11 and provides a classic Macintosh-style menubar6 which can emulate either System 7 or Mac OS 8, though it does not support tray icons.7 MLVWM also provides window decorations that fit both of the two styles.

See also

See also

References

References

  1. "Old website". Mirror that hosted the site 1996-1999. Archived from the original on 1998-02-11. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
  2. "Release 0.9.4".
  3. "History section of README.md". Official Repo.
  4. "HaZe - a real B&W; window manager". HaZe Homepage. Archived from the original on 2009-10-26. Retrieved 2024-08-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. "License section of README.md". Official Repo.
  6. "Screenshots section of README.md". Official Repo.
  7. "System tray section of the config's README.md". Official Configuration Repo.
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