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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;
11 margin: 20px 20px 20px 20px;
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14 </head>
15 <body>
16 <center>
17 <img src="dwm.png"/><br />
18 <h3>dynamic window manager</h3>
19 </center>
20 <h3>Description</h3>
21 <p>
22 dwm is a dynamic window manager for X11.
23 </p>
24 <h4>Philosophy</h4>
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
31 considered useful. This resulted in an extreme <a
32 href="http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html">CADT</a> development model,
33 which was a mistake. Thus the philosophy of dwm is simply <i>to fit my
34 needs</i> (maybe yours as well). That's it.
35 </p>
36 <h4>Differences to ion, larswm, and wmii</h4>
37 <p>
38 In contrast to ion, larswm, and wmii, dwm is much smaller, faster and simpler.
39 </p>
40 <ul>
41 <li>
42 dwm has no Lua integration, no 9P support, no menu, no editable
43 tagbars, no shell-based configuration, no remote control, and comes
44 without any additional tools like printing the selection or warping
45 the 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 based on tagging and dynamic window management (however
53 simpler than ion, wmii or larswm). It manages windows in
54 tiling and floating modes. Either mode can be applied dynamically,
55 depending on the application in use and the task performed.
56 </li>
57 <li>
58 dwm don't distinguishes between layers, there is no floating or
59 tiled layer. Wether the clients of currently selected tag are in
60 tiled mode or not, you can re-arrange all clients on the fly.
61 Popup- and fixed-size windows are treated floating, however.
62 </li>
63 <li>
64 dwm is customized through editing its source code, that makes it
65 extremely fast and secure - it does not process any input data
66 which hasn't been known at compile time, except window title names
67 and status text read from standard input. You don't have to learn
68 Lua/sh/ruby or some weird configuration file format (like X
69 resource files), beside C to customize it for your needs,
70 you <b>only</b> have to learn C.
71 </li>
72 <li>
73 Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's
74 pointless to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase
75 small and elitist. No novices asking stupid questions.
76 </li>
77 <li>
78 dwm uses 1-pixel borders to provide the maximum of screen real
79 estate to clients. Small titlebars are only drawn in front of
80 unfocused clients.
81 </li>
82 <li>
83 dwm reads from standard input to print arbitrary status text (like
84 the date, load, battery charge). That's much simpler than
85 larsremote, wmiir and what not...
86 </li>
87 <li>
88 It can be downloaded and distributed under the conditions
89 of the <a href="http://10kloc.org/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm?f=f10eb1139362;file=LICENSE;style=raw">MIT/X Consortium license</a>.
90 </li>
91 </ul>
92 <h4>Links</h4>
93 <ul>
94 <li><a href="http://10kloc.org/cgi-bin/man/man2html?query=dwm">Man page</a></li>
95 <li><a href="http://10kloc.org/shots/dwm-20060714.png">Screenshot</a> (20060714)</li>
96 <li><a href="http://10kloc.org/download/poster.ps">A4 poster (PostScript)</a></li>
97 <li>Mailing List: <a href="http://10kloc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dwm">dwm at wmii dot de</a> <a href="http://10kloc.org/pipermail/dwm/">(Archives)</a></li>
98 <li>IRC channel: <code>#dwm</code> at <code>irc.oftc.net</code></li>
99 </ul>
100 <h3>Development</h3>
101 <p>
102 dwm is actively developed in parallel to wmii. You can <a href="http://10kloc.org/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:
103 </p>
104 <p>
105 <code>hg clone http://10kloc.org/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm</code>
106 </p>
107 <h3>Download</h3>
108 <ul>
109 <li><a href="http://10kloc.org/download/dwm-0.5.tar.gz">dwm 0.5</a> (13kb) (20060721)</li>
110 </ul>
111 <h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
112 <p>
113 You can purchase this <a href="https://www.spreadshirt.net/shop.php?op=article&article_id=3298632&view=403">tricot</a>
114 if you like dwm and the dwm logo, which has been designed by Anselm.
115 </p>
116 <p><small>--Anselm (20060719)</small></p>
117 </body>
118 </html>