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WindowMaker is a popular window manager for the X Window System, allowing graphical applications to be run on Unix-like operating-systems. It is designed to emulate NeXT's GUI as an OpenStep-compatible environment and has been described as "one of the most useful and universal window managers available." WindowMaker has a reputation for being fast, efficient and highly stable and is very popular among open source solutions for use on both newer and older machines. More information on WindowMaker can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_Maker and www.windowmaker.infoorg. WindowMaker is the window manager which is used when you connect with NX to either ecgate or the supercomputer and select the "virtual desktop" option. For example, when you connect to ecgate using the virtual desktop you will get a desktop as shown here:

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