Sawfish (window manager)

Sawfish, an advanced window manager for X, mainly runs on UNIX and UNIX-like systems such as GNU/Linux. Formerly known as Sawmill, the program acquired its present name after legal problems (can anyone detail the nature of them ?).

Distinctively, Sawfish uses a LISP-like scripting language, rep, for all its code, making it very easy to extend. For example, it can incorporate keybindings for XMMS.

Sawfish doesn't come with a panel - however, it complies with GNOME, and often appears with this desktop environment.

The developers of Sawfish released version 1.1 of the system on June 29, 2003.

Can anybody add a history of the project?

External link

• http://sawmill.sourceforge.net/