You move your mouse over a terminal window. You click. A cursor appears.

Actual Window Manager is a comprehensive software utility designed to enhance the standard Windows user interface by adding advanced window management capabilities. While the Windows operating system provides basic tiling and snapping features, power users often find these native tools insufficient for complex multitasking. Actual Window Manager bridges this gap by offering hundreds of customization options that transform how windows behave, interact, and organize across single or multiple monitor setups.

Let us begin with a technical truth: your screen has no windows.

The "actual window manager" is not a thing. It is a relationship—between hardware, kernel, compositor, and your hand on the mouse. And like all relationships, it works best when you stop analyzing it and simply trust the deception.

Actual Window Manager adds extra buttons to the title bar of every window (next to Minimize, Maximize, Close). These typically include: