Written in C++ (Qt) | ||
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Developer(s) KDE (Martin Gräßlin, et al.) Stable release 5.9.2 (14 February 2017; 29 days ago (2017-02-14)) [±] Preview release 5.8 Beta (15 September 2016; 5 months ago (2016-09-15)) [±] Operating system Type X window manager
Wayland compositor | ||
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KWin is a window manager for the X Window System and is currently in the process of becoming a Wayland compositor. It is released as part of KDE Plasma 5 for which it is the default window manager. KWin can also be used on its own or with other desktop environments.
Contents
KWin 5.x depends on KDE Frameworks 5. KWin 4.x depended on KDE Platform 4, which was a monolithic library. KWin 3.x and earlier depended on KDELibs.
KWin can be configured by scripting using QML or QtScript, both of which are based on ECMAScript.
Kwin
Look and feel
There are many window decorations for KWin, including the current default Breeze (shown below), the previous default Oxygen, Microsoft Windows-like Redmond, and Keramik.
Compositing
Currently available compositing backends include XRender, OpenGL 1.2, OpenGL 2.0, OpenGL 3.1 and OpenGL ES 2.0.
Included effects
As of KDE 4.3 the following effects are built-in: