dwm - dynamic window manager

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dynamic window manager

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Description

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garbeam@34: dwm is a dynamic window manager for X11. garbeam@34:

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Philosophy

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garbeam@47: As founder and main developer of wmii I came to the conclusion that garbeam@47: wmii is too clunky for my needs. I don't need so many funky features garbeam@47: and all this hype about remote control through a 9P service, I only garbeam@47: want to manage my windows in a simple, but dynamic way. wmii never got garbeam@47: finished because I listened to users, who proposed arbitrary ideas I garbeam@48: considered useful. This resulted in an extreme CADT garbeam@48: development model, which was a mistake. Thus the philosophy of garbeam@48: dwm is simply to fit my needs (maybe yours as well). That's it. garbeam@47:

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Differences to wmii

garbeam@34: In contrast to wmii, dwm is only a window manager, and nothing else. garbeam@36: Hence, it is much smaller, faster and simpler. garbeam@34:

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garbeam@58: dwm has no 9P support, no menu, no editable tagbars, garbeam@36: no shell-based configuration and remote control and comes without garbeam@36: any additional tools like printing the selection or warping the garbeam@36: mouse. garbeam@36:
garbeam@36: dwm is only a single binary, it's source code is intended to never garbeam@36: exceed 2000 SLOC. garbeam@36:
garbeam@36: dwm is customized through editing its source code, that makes it garbeam@36: extremely fast and secure - it does not process any input data which garbeam@36: hasn't been known at compile time, except window title names. garbeam@36:
garbeam@36: dwm is based on tagging and dynamic window management (however simpler garbeam@36: than wmii or larswm). garbeam@36:
garbeam@36: dwm don't distinguishes between layers, there is no floating or garbeam@36: managed layer. Wether the clients of currently selected tag are garbeam@36: managed or not, you can re-arrange all clients on the fly. Popup- garbeam@36: and fixed-size windows are treated unmanaged. garbeam@36:
garbeam@36: dwm uses 1-pixel borders to provide the maximum of screen real garbeam@36: estate to clients. Small titlebars are only drawn in front of unfocused garbeam@36: clients. garbeam@36:
garbeam@59: dwm reads from stdin to print arbitrary status text (like the garbeam@58: date, load, battery charge). That's much simpler than larsremote, garbeam@58: wmiir and what not... garbeam@58:
garbeam@78: Anselm does not want any feedback to dwm. If you ask for support, garbeam@46: feature requests, or if you report bugs, they will be ignored garbeam@78: with a high chance. dwm is only intended to fit Anselms needs. garbeam@46: However you are free to download and distribute/relicense it, with the garbeam@36: conditions of the MIT/X Consortium license. garbeam@36:

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Screenshot

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garbeam@59: Click here for a screenshot (20060714) garbeam@34:

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Development

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garbeam@34: dwm is actively developed in parallel to wmii. You can browse its source code repository or get a copy using Mercurial with following command: garbeam@34:

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garbeam@36: hg clone http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm garbeam@34:

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Download

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dwm 0.1 (12kb) (20060714)

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Miscellaneous

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garbeam@58: You can purchase this tricot garbeam@78: if you like dwm and the dwm logo, which has been designed by Anselm. garbeam@58:

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--Anselm (20060714)

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