Pager (GUI)

A pager is a graphical user interface feature provided by some desktop environments, mostly on the Unix and Linux platforms. It takes the form of an onscreen window or a gadget in the taskbar or panel displaying the user's virtual desktop and providing a way to switch among desktop areas or navigate the workspace. Most pagers depict thumbnail outlines of windows assigned to each desktop and can switch or move windows from mouse gestures or scroll wheel.

Window management topics
Methods
  • Tiling
  • Stacking
  • Dynamic
  • Compositing
  • Re-parenting
Tiling examples
  • awesome
  • dwm
  • i3
  • PWM
  • Ion
  • wmii
  • ratpoison
  • xmonad
  • Xerox Star
  • Windows 1.0
  • GEM (2.0 and later)
Stacking examples
  • amiwm
  • twm
  • cwm
  • mwm
  • FVWM
  • Enlightenment
  • Blackbox
  • Presentation Manager
  • Windows 2.0
  • Windows 95
  • Windows 98
  • Windows ME
  • Windows NT (until Windows XP)
  • Mac OS 9 and earlier
  • GEM 1.1
  • WindowLab
  • Xerox Alto
Compositing examples
  • Beryl
  • Compiz
  • Desktop Window Manager (with Windows Aero)
  • Metacity
  • Mutter
  • KWin
  • Xfwm
  • Aqua (with the Quartz Compositor)
Systems with WMs
  • Amiga OS
  • Mac OS
  • OS/2
  • Xerox PARC
    • Xerox Alto
    • Xerox Star
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Atari TOS
  • RISC OS
  • OpenVMS
Components
  • Window manager
  • Window decorator
  • Dock
  • Title bar
  • Task bar
  • Notification Area
  • Pager
Related reading
  • Windowing system
  • Desktop environment
  • GUI widget
  • X Window System
  • X window manager
  • Wayland
  • Mir
  • Virtual desktop
  • OpenGL
  • DirectX
  • GPU
  • Mouse
  • Keyboard
  • WIMP
  • GUI
  • Widget toolkit
  • Turbo Vision
  • Qt
  • GTK
  • AIGLX
  • XGL
  • Shell (computing)
  • Painter's algorithm
  • Resolution independence