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configurenotify remembers max geom now, and restores this if necessary, however it accepts to touch the max size on configurerequest, this shouldn't break fillscreen apps (tested with mplayer)
author Anselm R. Garbe <arg@10kloc.org>
date Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:31:55 +0200
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garbeam@34 1 <html>
garbeam@34 2 <head>
garbeam@34 3 <title>dwm - dynamic window manager</title>
garbeam@34 4 <meta name="author" content="Anselm R. Garbe">
garbeam@34 5 <meta name="generator" content="ed">
garbeam@34 6 <meta name="copyright" content="(C)opyright 2006 by Anselm R. Garbe">
arg@249 7 <link rel="dwm icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
garbeam@34 8 <style type="text/css">
garbeam@34 9 body {
garbeam@34 10 color: #000000;
garbeam@34 11 font-family: sans-serif;
garbeam@36 12 margin: 20px 20px 20px 20px;
garbeam@34 13 }
garbeam@34 14 </style>
garbeam@34 15 </head>
garbeam@34 16 <body>
garbeam@34 17 <center>
garbeam@35 18 <img src="dwm.png"/><br />
arg@118 19 <h3>dynamic window manager</h3>
garbeam@36 20 </center>
arg@118 21 <h3>Description</h3>
garbeam@34 22 <p>
garbeam@34 23 dwm is a dynamic window manager for X11.
garbeam@34 24 </p>
arg@222 25 <h4>Background</h4>
garbeam@47 26 <p>
garbeam@47 27 As founder and main developer of wmii I came to the conclusion that
garbeam@47 28 wmii is too clunky for my needs. I don't need so many funky features
garbeam@47 29 and all this hype about remote control through a 9P service, I only
garbeam@47 30 want to manage my windows in a simple, but dynamic way. wmii never got
garbeam@47 31 finished because I listened to users, who proposed arbitrary ideas I
garbeam@88 32 considered useful. This resulted in an extreme <a
garbeam@88 33 href="http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html">CADT</a> development model,
garbeam@88 34 which was a mistake. Thus the philosophy of dwm is simply <i>to fit my
garbeam@88 35 needs</i> (maybe yours as well). That's it.
garbeam@47 36 </p>
garbeam@90 37 <h4>Differences to ion, larswm, and wmii</h4>
garbeam@34 38 <p>
garbeam@88 39 In contrast to ion, larswm, and wmii, dwm is much smaller, faster and simpler.
garbeam@34 40 </p>
garbeam@34 41 <ul>
garbeam@36 42 <li>
arg@205 43 dwm has no Lua integration, no 9P support, no editable
garbeam@88 44 tagbars, no shell-based configuration, no remote control, and comes
garbeam@88 45 without any additional tools like printing the selection or warping
garbeam@88 46 the mouse.
garbeam@36 47 </li>
garbeam@36 48 <li>
garbeam@36 49 dwm is only a single binary, it's source code is intended to never
garbeam@36 50 exceed 2000 SLOC.
garbeam@36 51 </li>
garbeam@36 52 <li>
garbeam@88 53 dwm is based on tagging and dynamic window management (however
garbeam@88 54 simpler than ion, wmii or larswm). It manages windows in
garbeam@88 55 tiling and floating modes. Either mode can be applied dynamically,
garbeam@88 56 depending on the application in use and the task performed.
garbeam@36 57 </li>
garbeam@36 58 <li>
arg@244 59 dwm doesn't distinguishes between layers, there is no floating or
garbeam@88 60 tiled layer. Wether the clients of currently selected tag are in
garbeam@88 61 tiled mode or not, you can re-arrange all clients on the fly.
garbeam@88 62 Popup- and fixed-size windows are treated floating, however.
garbeam@88 63 </li>
garbeam@88 64 <li>
garbeam@88 65 dwm is customized through editing its source code, that makes it
garbeam@88 66 extremely fast and secure - it does not process any input data
garbeam@88 67 which hasn't been known at compile time, except window title names
garbeam@88 68 and status text read from standard input. You don't have to learn
garbeam@88 69 Lua/sh/ruby or some weird configuration file format (like X
garbeam@88 70 resource files), beside C to customize it for your needs,
arg@155 71 you <b>only</b> have to learn C (at least editing header files).
garbeam@88 72 </li>
garbeam@88 73 <li>
garbeam@88 74 Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's
garbeam@88 75 pointless to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase
garbeam@88 76 small and elitist. No novices asking stupid questions.
garbeam@36 77 </li>
garbeam@36 78 <li>
garbeam@36 79 dwm uses 1-pixel borders to provide the maximum of screen real
garbeam@88 80 estate to clients. Small titlebars are only drawn in front of
garbeam@88 81 unfocused clients.
garbeam@36 82 </li>
garbeam@36 83 <li>
garbeam@88 84 dwm reads from standard input to print arbitrary status text (like
garbeam@88 85 the date, load, battery charge). That's much simpler than
garbeam@88 86 larsremote, wmiir and what not...
garbeam@58 87 </li>
garbeam@58 88 <li>
garbeam@90 89 It can be downloaded and distributed under the conditions
garbeam@96 90 of the <a href="http://10kloc.org/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm?f=f10eb1139362;file=LICENSE;style=raw">MIT/X Consortium license</a>.
garbeam@36 91 </li>
arg@205 92 <li>
arg@205 93 Optionally you can install <b>dmenu</b> to extend dwm with a wmii-alike menu.
arg@205 94 </li>
garbeam@34 95 </ul>
garbeam@90 96 <h4>Links</h4>
garbeam@89 97 <ul>
garbeam@96 98 <li><a href="http://10kloc.org/cgi-bin/man/man2html?query=dwm">Man page</a></li>
arg@241 99 <li><a href="http://10kloc.org/shots/dwm-20060810a.png">Screenshot of tiled mode</a> (20060810)</li>
arg@241 100 <li><a href="http://10kloc.org/shots/dwm-20060810b.png">Screenshotof floating mode</a> (20060810)</li>
garbeam@96 101 <li><a href="http://10kloc.org/download/poster.ps">A4 poster (PostScript)</a></li>
arg@299 102 <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>&nbsp;<a href="http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.dwm">(GMANE Archive)</a></li>
garbeam@89 103 <li>IRC channel: <code>#dwm</code> at <code>irc.oftc.net</code></li>
garbeam@89 104 </ul>
arg@155 105 <h3>Download</h3>
arg@155 106 <ul>
arg@375 107 <li><a href="http://10kloc.org/download/dwm-1.1.tar.gz">dwm 1.1</a> (15kb) (20060828)</li>
arg@375 108 <li><a href="http://10kloc.org/download/dmenu-0.6.tar.gz">dmenu 0.6</a> (7kb) (20060828)</li>
arg@155 109 </ul>
arg@118 110 <h3>Development</h3>
garbeam@34 111 <p>
garbeam@96 112 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:
garbeam@34 113 </p>
garbeam@34 114 <p>
garbeam@96 115 <code>hg clone http://10kloc.org/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm</code>
garbeam@34 116 </p>
arg@188 117 <p>
arg@188 118 <code>hg clone http://10kloc.org/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dmenu</code>
arg@188 119 </p>
arg@118 120 <h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
garbeam@58 121 <p>
garbeam@58 122 You can purchase this <a href="https://www.spreadshirt.net/shop.php?op=article&article_id=3298632&view=403">tricot</a>
garbeam@78 123 if you like dwm and the dwm logo, which has been designed by Anselm.
garbeam@58 124 </p>
arg@169 125 <p><small>--Anselm</small></p>
garbeam@34 126 </body>
garbeam@34 127 </html>