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Sawfish

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Sawfish

Summary

Sawfish is a window manager[1]. Sawfish draws 53 Wikipedia views per month (window_manager category, ranking #7 of 10).[2]

Key Facts

  • Sawfish's image is recorded as Sawfish.png[3].
  • Sawfish's instance of is recorded as window manager[4].
  • Sawfish's instance of is recorded as free software[5].
  • Sawfish's logo image is recorded as Sawfish logo.png[6].
  • Sawfish's copyright license is recorded as GNU General Public License, version 2.0[7].
  • Sawfish's copyright license is recorded as Artistic License 2.0[8].
  • Sawfish's programmed in is recorded as Q15777[9].
  • Sawfish's programmed in is recorded as Lisp[10].
  • Sawfish's operating system is recorded as Unix-like operating system[11].
  • Sawfish's software version identifier is recorded as 1.9.1[12].
  • Sawfish's software version identifier is recorded as 1.10[13].
  • Sawfish's software version identifier is recorded as 1.10.99[14].
  • Sawfish's software version identifier is recorded as 1.11[15].
  • Sawfish's software version identifier is recorded as 1.11.90[16].
  • Sawfish's software version identifier is recorded as 1.11.91[17].
  • Sawfish's software version identifier is recorded as 1.12.0[18].
  • Sawfish's software version identifier is recorded as 1.12.90[19].
  • Sawfish's software version identifier is recorded as 1.13.0[20].
  • Sawfish's has use is recorded as window manager[21].
  • Sawfish's Commons category is recorded as Sawfish (window manager)[22].
  • Sawfish's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01mywx[23].
  • Sawfish's official website is recorded as http://sawfish.tuxfamily.org[24].
  • Sawfish's source code repository URL is recorded as https://github.com/SawfishWM/sawfish[25].
  • Sawfish's GUI toolkit or framework is recorded as GTK[26].
  • Sawfish's Free Software Directory entry is recorded as Sawfish[27].

Why It Matters

Sawfish draws 53 Wikipedia views per month (window_manager category, ranking #7 of 10).[2] Sawfish has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28]

Related Entities

free software Lisp Unix-like operating system

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . sawfish.wikia.com. sawfish.wikia.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . github.com. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . github.com. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . github.com. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . github.com. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . github.com. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . github.com. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . github.com. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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