Oroborus (window manager): Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

This article refers to the window manager Oroborus. Ouroboros is the ancient symbol of a snake biting its own tail.

In Unix computing, Oroborus is a minimalist window manager for the X Window System. The project also provides some tools which can be useful with other window managers too.

Oroborus was written by Ken Lynch, and is currently developed by Stefan Pfetzing, aka dreamind.

Oroborus is released under the GNU General Public License.

There are some additional tools for Oroborus, including:

• Keylaunch
• Deskmenu
• Desklaunch