Window Manager
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A window manager is system software that controls the placement, appearance, and behavior of application windows within a graphical user interface.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ChromeOS window manager | 1 |
| Window Manager canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8471585 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Window Manager Context triple: [Dialog Manager, integratesWith, Window Manager]
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A.
Desktop Window Manager
Desktop Window Manager is the compositing window manager in modern Microsoft Windows that handles visual effects, window rendering, and desktop composition using hardware acceleration.
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B.
Marco window manager
Marco window manager is the lightweight, traditional window manager used by the MATE desktop environment to provide classic window handling and compositing on Unix-like systems.
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C.
IceWM
IceWM is a lightweight, fast, and highly configurable stacking window manager for the X Window System, popular on resource-constrained Linux and Unix-like systems.
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D.
Muffin window manager
Muffin window manager is the compositing window manager developed for the Cinnamon desktop environment, providing window management and visual effects on Linux systems.
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E.
Xfwm4
Xfwm4 is the lightweight, compositing window manager used by the Xfce desktop environment on Unix-like systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Window Manager Target entity description: A window manager is system software that controls the placement, appearance, and behavior of application windows within a graphical user interface.
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A.
Desktop Window Manager
Desktop Window Manager is the compositing window manager in modern Microsoft Windows that handles visual effects, window rendering, and desktop composition using hardware acceleration.
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B.
Marco window manager
Marco window manager is the lightweight, traditional window manager used by the MATE desktop environment to provide classic window handling and compositing on Unix-like systems.
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C.
IceWM
IceWM is a lightweight, fast, and highly configurable stacking window manager for the X Window System, popular on resource-constrained Linux and Unix-like systems.
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D.
Muffin window manager
Muffin window manager is the compositing window manager developed for the Cinnamon desktop environment, providing window management and visual effects on Linux systems.
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E.
Xfwm4
Xfwm4 is the lightweight, compositing window manager used by the Xfce desktop environment on Unix-like systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Graphical user interface component
ⓘ
System software ⓘ |
| canBe |
Integrated into desktop environment
ⓘ
Standalone component ⓘ |
| communicatesVia |
Display server
ⓘ
Wayland ⓘ X Window System ⓘ
linked to:
X11
|
| controls |
Appearance of application windows
ⓘ
Behavior of application windows ⓘ Placement of application windows ⓘ |
| examplesInclude |
Compiz
ⓘ
linked to:
Compiz window manager
Enlightenment ⓘ Fluxbox ⓘ KWin ⓘ Metacity ⓘ
linked to:
metacity
Mutter ⓘ Openbox ⓘ awesome ⓘ i3 ⓘ |
| handles |
Keyboard shortcuts for window operations
ⓘ
Mouse interactions with windows ⓘ Window decorations ⓘ Window focus ⓘ Window layering ⓘ |
| hasType |
Compositing window manager
ⓘ
Dynamic window manager ⓘ Stacking window manager ⓘ Tiling window manager ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Desktop environment ⓘ |
| manages | Application windows ⓘ |
| mayInclude | Compositor ⓘ |
| operatesIn | Graphical user interface ⓘ |
| provides |
Title bars
ⓘ
Window borders ⓘ Window controls ⓘ |
| runsOn |
BSD
ⓘ
Desktop operating system ⓘ Linux ⓘ Microsoft Windows ⓘ
linked to:
Windows
Unix-like operating system ⓘ macOS ⓘ |
| supports |
Closing windows
ⓘ
Floating windows ⓘ Maximizing windows ⓘ Minimizing windows ⓘ Moving windows ⓘ Resizing windows ⓘ Stacking of windows ⓘ Tiling of windows ⓘ Virtual desktops ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Window Manager Description of subject: A window manager is system software that controls the placement, appearance, and behavior of application windows within a graphical user interface.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Window Manager