Editing Sawfish (window manager)

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{{Infobox software
| name                   = Sawfish
| logo                   = Sawfish logo.png
| screenshot             = Sawfish.png
| caption                = Screenshot of Sawfish
| developer              = John Harper (retired), Janek Kozicki (2007), Christopher Bratusek, Sawfish community
| released               = {{Start date and age|2000|01|01}}
| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q164036|P348|P548=Q2804309}}
| latest release date    = {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q164036|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}
| latest preview version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q164036|P348|P548=Q51930650}}
| latest preview date    = {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q164036|P348|P548=Q51930650|P577}}
| programming language   = [[C Programming Language|C]], [[Lisp programming language|Lisp]]
| operating system       = [[Linux]], [[FreeBSD]], [[NetBSD]], [[OpenBSD]], [[Unix]], [[Mac OS X]]
| genre                  = [[Window manager]]
| license                = [[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]]
| website                = {{URL|http://sawfish.tuxfamily.org/}}
}}
[[File:Sawfish session.ogv|thumb|Sawfish Xsession running on [[Debian]] 7 [[Linux]]]]

'''Sawfish''' is a [[window manager]] for the [[X 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 as [[web browser]] windows opening full-screen without borders on a secondary [[Computer monitor|monitor]], a default [[terminal emulator]] window displaying full-screen at the desktop level, and all [[dialog box]] windows under a certain size opening on the lower right corner of the main monitor while larger ones are centered. 

Sawfish uses a [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]]-like [[scripting 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 a [[GUI]] configuration utility for users who do not wish to edit configuration files directly.

== History ==
Sawfish was first called '''Sawmill'''.  The name was changed because [[Sawmill (software)|another software program]] had the same name. It was the standard window manager of the [[GNOME]] [[desktop environment]] until it was replaced by [[Metacity]] in Gnome 2.2.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.gnome.org/start/2.2/notes/rnwm.html | work =GNOME 2.2.0 Release Notes | title = Metacity Window Manager | first =Murray | last = Cumming |date=February 2003 | publisher = Gnome | access-date=2007-02-19}}</ref>

The development had stopped, but the community restarted it in 2007.{{fact|date=March 2016}}

==See also==
* [[Comparison of X window managers]]
* [[StumpWM]], a tiling window manager written in Common Lisp.

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==References==

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==External links==

* {{Official website}}
* {{Citation | url = http://sawfish.wikia.com/wiki/Comparison_of_extensible_window_managers | contribution = Comparison of extensible window managers | publisher = Wikia | title = Sawfish | type = Wiki}} — comparison of [[sawfish WM|Sawfish]], [[awesome WM|Awesome]], [[Xmonad]], [[StumpWM]], and [[Qtile]].

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