> For those of you who are unfamiliar with what a window manager is, it’s a way to snap individual windows into sections on your screen.
A window manager is a software that manages your windows for you. It need not necessarily 'snap' them. It can position your window according to however it pleases. It is also responsible for transferring the control between windows and providing window decorations and other controls to the user.
This I believe is in the X11 context. Could somebody with a Mac expand on if this is the case on the apple computers too?
On OS X the window manager is built-in and not really customizable. That's also the reason why you need extra tools on OS X to get something like i3 or xmonad.
I don't think this is what a window manager is:
> For those of you who are unfamiliar with what a window manager is, it’s a way to snap individual windows into sections on your screen.
A window manager is a software that manages your windows for you. It need not necessarily 'snap' them. It can position your window according to however it pleases. It is also responsible for transferring the control between windows and providing window decorations and other controls to the user.
This I believe is in the X11 context. Could somebody with a Mac expand on if this is the case on the apple computers too?