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@88: considered useful. This resulted in an extreme CADT development model, garbeam@88: which was a mistake. Thus the philosophy of dwm is simply to fit my garbeam@88: needs (maybe yours as well). That's it. garbeam@47:

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Differences to ion, larswm, and wmii

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garbeam@88: In contrast to ion, larswm, and wmii, dwm is much smaller, faster and simpler. garbeam@34:

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garbeam@88: dwm has no Lua integration, no 9P support, no menu, no editable garbeam@88: tagbars, no shell-based configuration, no remote control, and comes garbeam@88: without any additional tools like printing the selection or warping garbeam@88: the 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@88: dwm is based on tagging and dynamic window management (however garbeam@88: simpler than ion, wmii or larswm). It manages windows in garbeam@88: tiling and floating modes. Either mode can be applied dynamically, garbeam@88: depending on the application in use and the task performed. garbeam@36:
garbeam@36: dwm don't distinguishes between layers, there is no floating or garbeam@88: tiled layer. Wether the clients of currently selected tag are in garbeam@88: tiled mode or not, you can re-arrange all clients on the fly. garbeam@88: Popup- and fixed-size windows are treated floating, however. garbeam@88:
garbeam@88: dwm is customized through editing its source code, that makes it garbeam@88: extremely fast and secure - it does not process any input data garbeam@88: which hasn't been known at compile time, except window title names garbeam@88: and status text read from standard input. You don't have to learn garbeam@88: Lua/sh/ruby or some weird configuration file format (like X garbeam@88: resource files), beside C to customize it for your needs, garbeam@88: you only have to learn C. garbeam@88:
garbeam@88: Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's garbeam@88: pointless to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase garbeam@88: small and elitist. No novices asking stupid questions. garbeam@36:
garbeam@36: dwm uses 1-pixel borders to provide the maximum of screen real garbeam@88: estate to clients. Small titlebars are only drawn in front of garbeam@88: unfocused clients. garbeam@36:
garbeam@88: dwm reads from standard input to print arbitrary status text (like garbeam@88: the date, load, battery charge). That's much simpler than garbeam@88: larsremote, wmiir and what not... garbeam@58:
garbeam@88: dwm is only intended to fit Anselms needs. That means, Anselm garbeam@88: does not want feedback to dwm. If you ask for support, garbeam@88: feature requests, or if you report "bugs" (real bugs are welcome garbeam@88: though), they will be ignored with a high garbeam@88: chance. However you are free to download and distribute/relicense garbeam@88: it, with the conditions of the MIT/X Consortium license. garbeam@36:

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Documentation

garbeam@88: There is a man page. garbeam@36:

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 0.2 (13kb) (20060717)

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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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