AfterStep
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 Screenshot of an AfterStep desktop. | |
| Initial release | 2000-04-25[1] |
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| Stable release | |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Type | Window manager |
| License | 2.x: MIT[4] 1.x: GPL-2.0-or-later[5] |
| Website | www.afterstep.org |
AfterStep is a
TuxRadar selected AfterStep as one of the year's best window managers, praising it as "fast and reliable, with a huge range of configuration options and the ability to create some spectacular themes".[6]
Features
Features of the AfterStep window manager include:
- Stacking windows
- Written in C
- Window decorations include borders and titlebars
- Titlebars have buttons for menu, minimize, maximize and close
- Active applications can be displayed in a taskbar via the winlist module
- Uses the GTK+toolkit
- Support for modules
- Support for multiple desktops
- Desktop switching via a pagermodule
- Dependent on Perl and ImageMagick
Modules
AfterStep includes several modules such as:
- Pager - a visual tool for managing and cycling between multiple desktops
- WinList - a simple Taskbar displaying active applications
- Wharf - and launches application.
AfterStep also supports virtual screens, and relies on a set of text-based configuration files for customizing its appearance.
AfterStep is maintained by a small community of developers with Sasha Vasko serving as project manager.
See also
References
- ^ "Changelog", Afterstep, 2013-04-01, retrieved 2025-04-11
- ^ "Changelog". 1 April 2013. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
- ^ "Release 2.2.12". 14 May 2013.
- ^ "afterstep/COPYRIGHT". GitHub. 30 November 2004.
- ^ "afterstep/COPYRIGHT.OLD". GitHub. 30 November 2004.
- ^ "From the archives: the best window managers of 2000 | TuxRadar". www.tuxradar.com. Archived from the original on 2009-03-13.
External links
- Official website
- "AfterStep". Freecode.
- AfterWiki Main Page
- AfterStep Applets
- Window Manager for X: AfterStep
- Rob's AfterStep Page
- AfterStep 1.3.1 article by Guylhem Aznar in Linux Journal