Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A compositing window manager is a component of a computer's graphical user interface that draws windows and their borders. It also controls how they display and interact with each other, and with the rest of the desktop environment. The main difference between a compositing window manager and other window managers is that instead of outputting to a common screen, programs each output first to a separate and independent buffer, or temporary location inside the computer, where they can be manipulated before they are shown.

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