Cygwin/X User's Guide
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# Window managers

A window manager is required in order to decorate, move, resize, and perform other operations on individual X windows.

Cygwin/X can work with window managers in several different ways:

- Internal window manager for multiwindow mode. The internal window manager that creates a Windows window for each top-level X window is automatically started when using the `-multiwindow` command-line parameter to X. See the Section called Command line parameters in Chapter 4 for more information on the `-multiwindow` command-line parameter.

- External local window managers (e.g. twm, mwm (part of the motif package), fvwm2, openbox, aewm++, WindowMaker). These local window managers must be installed on Cygwin and run locally.

- Remote window managers started by logging into an XDMCP session. You can read more about XDMCP in the Section called Remote sessions via XDMCP.

- Remote window manager launched through an ssh tunnel. This is not Cygwin/X-specific, so you should be able to find information about launching remote window managers from other sources. See the Section called Secure ssh for more information on using ssh.

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