Tiling window manager
Window manager with non-overlapping frames / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For X's default window manager, which is not a tiling window manager, see twm.
In computing, a tiling window manager is a window manager with an organization of the screen into mutually non-overlapping frames, as opposed to the more common approach (used by stacking window managers) of coordinate-based stacking of overlapping objects (windows) that tries to fully emulate the desktop metaphor.
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