os x window manager

[sabbath06]

I've seen screenshots of a window manager that has the os x style launch bar at the bottom with the icons that get bigger when you hover over them. Anyone know what the name of it is?

[gjtoth]

I've seen screenshots of a window manager that has the os x style launch bar at the bottom with the icons that get bigger when you hover over them. Anyone know what the name of it is?

Could be any one of a number of them -- Avant, Kooldock, Smoothdock, Kibadock -- to name a few.

[reacocard]

Could be any one of a number of them -- Avant, Kooldock, Smoothdock, Kibadock -- to name a few.

Avant doesn't have zooming yet. I'd say it's probably Kiba-dock, or maybe gnome-dock.

Incidentally, it's just 'dock', not 'window manager'. A window manager is something else entirely.

[DoctorMO]

Yea the window manager of OS X is Carbon (like Gtk); the graphical services (like X11) is NextStep and there is a free software version because the protocall is open.

But while these are the answers to your question, these are not the answers you want.

[Mateo]

DreamLinux tries to implement this.

By the way, I think you might be disappointed if you want it to match OSX. To my knowledge, none of them have a good implementation of autohide, which means you have to look at the dock all the time, even in full screen.

[igknighted]

DreamLinux tries to implement this.

By the way, I think you might be disappointed if you want it to match OSX. To my knowledge, none of them have a good implementation of autohide, which means you have to look at the dock all the time, even in full screen.

Actually Kiba does this well. But it has really weird physics functions and doesn't act like OSX in other ways.

[Iarwain ben-adar]

What about Kooldock then?

It's in the repo's :D


Iarwain