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GemWM: an Atari GEM desktop for Wayland

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GemWM is a Wayland compositor that recreates the look of the Atari ST’s GEM desktop while offering overlapping, tiling, and scrolling window modes.

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For: Wayland users who want an Atari ST-style desktop
Worth noticing: The project says its Atari ST font is built from EmuTOS’s, under the GPL; GemWM itself is BSD-licensed.

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The configuration example uses a small file at `~/.config/gemwm/config`, with sample entries for a desktop image, key bindings, and outline-style animation. The site also describes menu-bar items as scriptable menu apps and shows a shell pipeline that moves terminal windows between workspaces. GemWM identifies its own license as BSD and the font source as EmuTOS, under GPL.

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