Macintosh-Like Virtual Window Manager

{{Infobox software

| name = mlvwm

| title = Macintosh-like Virtual Window Manager

| screenshot = Root s.gif

| caption = A screenshot of MLVWM.

| released = {{Start date and age|1996|11|16|df=y}}{{cite web |title=Old website |url=http://www.iaeste.or.at/linux/mlvwm/mlvwm.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19980211042129/http://www.iaeste.or.at/linux/mlvwm/mlvwm.html|website=Mirror that hosted the site 1996-1999.|archive-date=1998-02-11|access-date=2025-01-02|url-status=dead}}

| operating system = Unix-like

| repo = {{URL|https://github.com/morgant/mlvwm}}

| programming language = C

| latest release version = 0.9.4{{cite web |url=https://github.com/morgant/mlvwm/releases/tag/0.9.4|title=Release 0.9.4}}

| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2021|09|09|df=y}}

| website = {{URL|http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~y-miyata/mlvwm.html}}

}}

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 resumed in 2020 by Morgan Aldridge.{{cite web |title=History section of README.md |url=https://github.com/morgant/mlvwm/blob/master/README.md#history |website=Official Repo}}

MLVWM spawned a derivative known as HaZe,{{cite web |title=HaZe - a real B&W; window manager |url=http://geocities.com/hazewm/ |website=HaZe Homepage |access-date=2024-08-31 |archive-date=2009-10-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091026234522/http://geocities.com/hazewm/ |url-status=bot: unknown }} a Black-and-White (or Monochrome) window manager, although it is no longer under active development.

MLVWM is distributed as freeware{{cite web |title=License section of README.md |url=https://github.com/morgant/mlvwm/blob/master/README.md#license |website=Official Repo}} with some files licensed as MIT License and Public domain.