[W]window system

W is a simple, socket based, mainly two-color window system created originally by Torsten Scherer and currently "maintained" by Eero Tamminen. W has no relation to that X's predecessor with a same name. W 1 release 4 main features are:

To compile and use W you'll need a small unix like setup (GNU C, make and linker + unix C-library) with networking (sockets), some method to access graphics memory linearly, at least 4MB of RAM and 10MB of free disk space.

Other information:

Obsolete information:


W1R4 sources are currently available available from my WWW-page.

Eero Tamminen
oak@welho.com