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Desktop Window Manager

compositing window manager used in Microsoft Windows Vista, 7 and 8
SoftwareApplication software Q1200785

Facts

5 properties
Instance of
software, Microsoft Windows component, compositing manager[2][3]
Has use
computer graphics[12]
Different from
Dwm[13]
Imported from
wholeness_audit_2026-05-02_v2
Operating system
Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
🏷️ Also known as
de Desktopfenster-Manager de Desktop Window Manager ja デスクトップウィンドウマネージャー ko 데스크톱 컴포지트 엔진 ko 데스크탑 창 관리자 ko 데스크톱 창 관리자 ko Dwm.exe ru Диспетчер окон рабочего стола ru Диспетчер рабочего стола tr Masaüstü Pencere Yöneticisi uk Диспетчер вікон стільниці zh 桌面合成引擎 zh 桌面窗口管理器 zh 桌面視窗管理員
🔖 Identifiers · 5
OpenAlex ID
C765897
Freebase ID
/m/08dl3_
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/11bc683nmj
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
765897
Stack Exchange tag
stackoverflow.com

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Summary

Desktop Window Manager is a software[1].

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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