amiwm

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| name = Amiwm

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| caption = Amiwm running on Solaris 10.

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| developer = Marcus Comstedt

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| genre = Window manager

| license = Proprietary{{efn|Source code available.}}

| website = http://www.lysator.liu.se/~marcus/amiwm.html

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In computing, the AMIga Window Manager (amiwm) is a stacking window manager for the X Window System written by Marcus Comstedt.{{cite news |last=Proffitt |first=Brian |date=October 4, 2000 |title=From the Desktop: Amiga, We Hardly Knew Ye, Looking at AmiWM |url=http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/2402/1 |newspaper=Linux Planet |access-date=September 5, 2017 |archive-date=September 5, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905233557/http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/2402/1 |url-status=dead }}

The window manager emulates the Amiga Workbench and includes support for multiple virtual screens like the AmigaOS, but doesn't offer more functionality than standard Workbench.{{cite magazine |last=Livermore|first=Chris|date=Christmas 1997 |title=NetBSD|magazine=Amiga Format |publisher=Future Publishing|issn=0957-4867|issue=105|pages=87}} By the words of its author, "the purpose of amiwm is to make life more pleasant for Amiga-freaks like myself who has/wants to use UNIX workstations once in a while".{{cite web |date=July 20, 2010 |title=amiwm|url=https://www.lysator.liu.se/~marcus/amiwm.html |access-date=September 5, 2017 }} AmiWM was not updated for years since the 1998 release, yet Linux Format magazine rated it as fast and reliable in 2007.{{cite magazine |last=Saunders|first=Mike |date=April 2007 |title=Skins alive! Old-school skin: Amiga Workbench|magazine=Linux Format |publisher=Future plc|issn=1470-4234|issue=91|page=58}} Although Marcus Comstedt included new features like support for AmigaOS 3.5 icons during internal development,{{cite news |last=Proffitt |first=Brian |date=October 4, 2000 |title=From the Desktop: Amiga, We Hardly Knew Ye - page 2, Looking at AmiWM |url=http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/2402/2 |newspaper=Linux Planet |access-date=September 5, 2017 |archive-date=September 5, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905231328/http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/2402/2 |url-status=dead }} a new version was not released until 2010.{{cite web |date=March 15, 1998 |title=amiwm|url=https://www.lysator.liu.se/~marcus/amiwm.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100313174735/https://www.lysator.liu.se/~marcus/amiwm.html |archive-date=March 13, 2010|access-date=September 5, 2017 }}