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title: Home
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Introduction
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============
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**Window Maker** is an X11 [window
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manager](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_manager) originally designed to
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provide integration support for the [GNUstep](http://gnustep.org) Desktop
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Environment, although it can run stand alone. In every way possible, it
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reproduces the elegant look and feel of the
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[NeXTSTEP](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP) user interface.
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[](img/wmaker.png)
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{:.screenshot .center}
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Window Maker on first run
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{:.caption .center}
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The key features of Window Maker are:
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- Stacking window manager with ability for semi-automatic tiling management
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- Lightweight and blazing fast
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- Easy to use
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- Highly configurable
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- Ability to bind keyboard shortcut to wide set of actions
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- Dynamic menu entries
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- Small, dockable apps ([dockapps](https://www.dockapps.net))
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- Human readable config files and GUI prefs application
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- Free and open source
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- Active community from all of the world
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See [features](features.html) section for more. In [screenshots](screenshots/)
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section you can see examples of how users set up their desktops.
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Download
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--------
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Many distributions already have Window Maker included in their software
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repositories, so it could be installed directly from there. Other sources are
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listed below:
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- Latest source of stable version is
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[0.95.8](pub/source/release/WindowMaker-0.95.8.tar.gz), released on
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11.03.2017. See the [NEWS](news) section for more information.
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- Source code is also available through the
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[git repository](http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git)
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