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   4 <b>GNU Window Maker</B><br>
   5 <i>X11 Window Manager</i><p>
   6 <u>http://windowmaker.org<br>
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  10 <b><i>Window Maker</b>
  11 <Img src=upbtn.xpm></i>is the GNU window manager
  12 for the X Window System. It was
  13 designed to emulate the look and feel of part of the NEXTSTEP(tm) GUI. It's
  14 supposed to be relatively fast and small, feature rich, easy to configure and
  15 easy to use, with a simple and elegant appearance borrowed from NEXTSTEP(tm).
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  17 <b>Window Maker</b> was designed keeping integration with GNUstep in
  18 mind and is the
  19 "official" window manager for it. It is also part of the GNU project
  20 (<u>www.gnu.org</u>)
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  23 <b>What is <i>GNUstep?</i></b><p>
  24 <i><b>G</i>NU</b>step is a complete object-oriented development system, based on the
  25 OpenStep specification released by NeXT(tm) (now Apple(tm)) and Sun(tm). It will provide everything one needs to produce cross-platform, object-oriented, graphical (and non-graphical) applications; providing among other things, base system libraries, a high-level GUI application framework that uses a Display PostScript(tm)-like imaging model (DGS), objects for accessing relational databases, distributed objects and a graphical development environment, with tools like interface modeller, a project management system
  26 (project center) and other tools.
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  28 The GNUstep development system will be used to create a user environment,
  29 with everything needed for a complete graphical user interface, such as a
  30 file viewer, text editors and other applications. Note that the user
  31 environment (or "desktop environment") is only a small part of the whole
  32 GNUstep project and therefore it does not "compete" with other projects like
  33 KDE or GNOME, simply because they are completely different things.
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  35 For more information on the GNUstep project, visit:
  36 <u>http://www.gnustep.org</u> and <u>http://gnustep.current.nu</u>
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