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3 <title>dwm - dynamic window manager</title>
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4 <meta name="author" content="Anselm R. Garbe">
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6 <meta name="copyright" content="(C)opyright 2006 by Anselm R. Garbe">
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17 <img src="dwm.png"/><br />
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18 <h3>dynamic window manager</h3>
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20 <h3>Description</h3>
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22 dwm is a dynamic window manager for X11.
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24 <h3>Philosophy</h3>
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25 <p>
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26 As founder and main developer of wmii I came to the conclusion that
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27 wmii is too clunky for my needs. I don't need so many funky features
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28 and all this hype about remote control through a 9P service, I only
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29 want to manage my windows in a simple, but dynamic way. wmii never got
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30 finished because I listened to users, who proposed arbitrary ideas I
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31 considered useful. This resulted in an extreme <a href="http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html">CADT model</a>
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32 of developmentwhich was basically my mistake. Thus the philosophy of
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33 dwm is to fit my needs. That's it.
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35 <h3>Differences to wmii</h3
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36 <p>
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37 In contrast to wmii, dwm is only a window manager, and nothing else.
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38 Hence, it is much smaller, faster and simpler.
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39 </p>
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42 dwm has no 9P support, no status bar, no menu, no editable tagbars,
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43 no shell-based configuration and remote control and comes without
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44 any additional tools like printing the selection or warping the
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46 </li>
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47 <li>
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48 dwm is only a single binary, it's source code is intended to never
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49 exceed 2000 SLOC.
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50 </li>
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52 dwm is customized through editing its source code, that makes it
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53 extremely fast and secure - it does not process any input data which
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54 hasn't been known at compile time, except window title names.
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55 </li>
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56 <li>
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57 dwm is based on tagging and dynamic window management (however simpler
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58 than wmii or larswm).
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59 </li>
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60 <li>
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61 dwm don't distinguishes between layers, there is no floating or
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62 managed layer. Wether the clients of currently selected tag are
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63 managed or not, you can re-arrange all clients on the fly. Popup-
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64 and fixed-size windows are treated unmanaged.
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65 </li>
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67 dwm uses 1-pixel borders to provide the maximum of screen real
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68 estate to clients. Small titlebars are only drawn in front of unfocused
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69 clients.
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70 </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
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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>.
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79 <h3>Screenshot</h3>
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81 <a href="http://wmii.de/shots/dwm-20060713.png">Click here for a screenshot</a> (20060713)
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83 <h3>Development</h3>
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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:
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86 </p>
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87 <p>
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88 <code>hg clone http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm</code>
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89 </p>
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90 <p>--Anselm (20060713)</p>
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91 </body>
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