Window Managers for X

The X Window System presents a huge collection of different thematic themes which provide a graphical preview. Consequently every user has the possibility to choose his or her favourite custom themes in order to make his or her windows being unique and absolutely gorgeous. For all those who want to create their own themes the majority of existing window managers include so-called theme managers. A theme manager is able to add design to every window within the X Window System. Strictly speaking it enables every user to apply his or her own created and designed themes easily, quickly and safely.

Theme managers do provide thousands of possibilities to make one’s theme unique and absolutely spectacular. It is only a question of creativity and imaginativeness in order to customize a self-designed attractive appearance of one’s windows. In this context it has to be stressed that many users do adapt the design of their desktops and windows to festive reasons. At Christmas time for instance users of the X Window System create their own Christmas themes in order to express their individual Christmas feelings on their screens. Some screens present Santa Claus and his reindeers, others show wonderful decorated Christmas trees and delighted children with their parents. By the way, Christmas themes for the X Window System are perfect Christmas presents, so-called Weihnachtsgeschenke in German. They represent wonderful and unique gift ideas, strictly speaking Geschenkideen, for one’s parents who do use their personal computers at home for private purposes. They will be absolutely enthusiastic to see that also technics can provide Christmas feelings.

Apart from festive reasons, many users of the X Window System do also create individual themes of their favourite actors, films and musicians. These themes can be designed by using pictures and photos of their idols. In other systems such as Microsoft Windows or Apple MacOS it also proves to be possible to customize one’s screen or desktop by means of different theme packs. These themes can often be downloaded from free sources or designed individually by specific theme managers such as Stardock.com or AlienGUIs.

Concluding it has to be mentioned that the latest version of Microsoft Windows, strictly speaking Windows 7, provides a complex feature which is designed to manage and customize the whole system. An example therefore is the usage of changing background images and themes – a method which is also provided by self-running picture galleries. This means that users do have the possibility to choose a predefined number of pictures which appear on the screen in specific time lags.