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| author | Anselm R. Garbe <garbeam@wmii.de> |
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| date | Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:55:07 +0200 |
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| 34 | 1 <html> |
| 2 <head> | |
| 3 <title>dwm - dynamic window manager</title> | |
| 4 <meta name="author" content="Anselm R. Garbe"> | |
| 5 <meta name="generator" content="ed"> | |
| 6 <meta name="copyright" content="(C)opyright 2006 by Anselm R. Garbe"> | |
| 7 <style type="text/css"> | |
| 8 body { | |
| 9 color: #000000; | |
| 10 font-family: sans-serif; | |
| 36 | 11 margin: 20px 20px 20px 20px; |
| 34 | 12 } |
| 13 </style> | |
| 14 </head> | |
| 15 <body> | |
| 16 <center> | |
| 35 | 17 <img src="dwm.png"/><br /> |
| 34 | 18 <h3>dynamic window manager</h3> |
| 36 | 19 </center> |
| 20 <h3>Description</h3> | |
| 34 | 21 <p> |
| 22 dwm is a dynamic window manager for X11. | |
| 23 </p> | |
| 47 | 24 <h3>Philosophy</h3> |
| 25 <p> | |
| 26 As founder and main developer of wmii I came to the conclusion that | |
| 27 wmii is too clunky for my needs. I don't need so many funky features | |
| 28 and all this hype about remote control through a 9P service, I only | |
| 29 want to manage my windows in a simple, but dynamic way. wmii never got | |
| 30 finished because I listened to users, who proposed arbitrary ideas I | |
| 48 | 31 considered useful. This resulted in an extreme <a href="http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html">CADT</a> |
| 32 development model, which was a mistake. Thus the philosophy of | |
| 33 dwm is simply <i>to fit my needs</i> (maybe yours as well). That's it. | |
| 47 | 34 </p> |
| 36 | 35 <h3>Differences to wmii</h3 |
| 34 | 36 <p> |
| 37 In contrast to wmii, dwm is only a window manager, and nothing else. | |
| 36 | 38 Hence, it is much smaller, faster and simpler. |
| 34 | 39 </p> |
| 40 <ul> | |
| 36 | 41 <li> |
| 42 dwm has no 9P support, no status bar, no menu, no editable tagbars, | |
| 43 no shell-based configuration and remote control and comes without | |
| 44 any additional tools like printing the selection or warping the | |
| 45 mouse. | |
| 46 </li> | |
| 47 <li> | |
| 48 dwm is only a single binary, it's source code is intended to never | |
| 49 exceed 2000 SLOC. | |
| 50 </li> | |
| 51 <li> | |
| 52 dwm is customized through editing its source code, that makes it | |
| 53 extremely fast and secure - it does not process any input data which | |
| 54 hasn't been known at compile time, except window title names. | |
| 55 </li> | |
| 56 <li> | |
| 57 dwm is based on tagging and dynamic window management (however simpler | |
| 58 than wmii or larswm). | |
| 59 </li> | |
| 60 <li> | |
| 61 dwm don't distinguishes between layers, there is no floating or | |
| 62 managed layer. Wether the clients of currently selected tag are | |
| 63 managed or not, you can re-arrange all clients on the fly. Popup- | |
| 64 and fixed-size windows are treated unmanaged. | |
| 65 </li> | |
| 66 <li> | |
| 67 dwm uses 1-pixel borders to provide the maximum of screen real | |
| 68 estate to clients. Small titlebars are only drawn in front of unfocused | |
| 69 clients. | |
| 70 </li> | |
| 71 <li> | |
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72 garbeam <b>does not</b> want any feedback to dwm. If you ask for support, |
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73 feature requests, or if you report bugs, they will be <b>ignored</b> |
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74 with a high chance. dwm is only intended to fit garbeams needs. |
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75 However you are free to download and distribute/relicense it, with the |
| 36 | 76 conditions of the <a href="http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm?f=f10eb1139362;file=LICENSE;style=raw">MIT/X Consortium license</a>. |
| 77 </li> | |
| 34 | 78 </ul> |
| 36 | 79 <h3>Screenshot</h3> |
| 34 | 80 <p> |
| 36 | 81 <a href="http://wmii.de/shots/dwm-20060713.png">Click here for a screenshot</a> (20060713) |
| 34 | 82 </p> |
| 36 | 83 <h3>Development</h3> |
| 34 | 84 <p> |
| 85 dwm is actively developed in parallel to wmii. You can <a href="http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm">browse</a> its source code repository or get a copy using <a href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/">Mercurial</a> with following command: | |
| 86 </p> | |
| 87 <p> | |
| 36 | 88 <code>hg clone http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm</code> |
| 34 | 89 </p> |
| 36 | 90 <p>--Anselm (20060713)</p> |
| 34 | 91 </body> |
| 92 </html> |