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Improved Linux Screen Space Management With PekWM

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http://broadcast.oreilly.com – PekWM offers an additional solution: window grouping. It allows a variety of different applications to be grouped together in a single window. Most everyone is familiar with tabbed browsing by now. Window grouping takes this one step further. When window grouping is used in PekWM the title bar in the window manager is segmented with each section effectively acting like a tab. Caitlyn Martin 2009-05-15T20:50:38-08:23 (General)

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