In Unix computing, PLWM (The Pointless Window Manager) is a Python package, containing classes suitable for implementing an X window manager, and also a window manager created using the PLWM package. Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX, sometimes also written as Unix with Small caps) is a computer Python is a general-purpose High-level programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes programmer productivity and code readability An X window manager is a Window manager which runs on top of the X Window System, a Windowing system mainly used on Unix-like systems Its internal structure is highly modularized, and can be fully customized and scripted with configuration files written in the implementation language, in a manner similar to Emacs, in order to change everything from keybindings to window management policies. Emacs is a class of feature-rich Text editors usually characterized by their extensibility
PLWM is one of a very few modern window managers that is not reparenting. A re-parenting window manager is an X Window System Window manager that adopts all other windows