Rujukan ka bagian di handap sarta tuluy ngajawab patarosan saterusna dina basa nu sarua jeung bagian: Passage: A window manager controls the placement and appearance of application windows. Ieu bisa ngabalukarkeun interfaces desktop reminiscent of those of Microsoft Windows or of the Apple Macintosh (conto di antarana GNOME 2, KDE, Xfce) atawa boga kontrol radikal beda (saperti tile window manager, kawas wmii atawa Ratpoison). Sababaraha interfaces saperti Sugar atawa Chrome OS nyingkahan desktop metafora sagemblengna, simplifying interfaces maranéhanana pikeun aplikasi husus. window managers dibasajankeun dina sophistication jeung pajeulitna ti bare-bones (misalna twm, nu dasar window manager disadiakeun jeung X, atawa evilwm, hiji window-manager kacida lampu) ka lingkungan desktop leuwih komprehensif saperti pencerahan jeung malah ka window-managers husus pikeun pasar nangtung saperti titik-of-diobral patarosan: What does a window Manager control?
panempatan jeung penampilan jandela aplikasi.