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author Anselm R. Garbe <garbeam@wmii.de>
date Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:33:26 +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">
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garbeam@34 6 <meta name="copyright" content="(C)opyright 2006 by Anselm R. Garbe">
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garbeam@34 13 </head>
garbeam@34 14 <body>
garbeam@34 15 <center>
garbeam@35 16 <img src="dwm.png"/><br />
garbeam@34 17 <h3>dynamic window manager</h3>
garbeam@34 18 <center>
garbeam@34 19 <h2>Description</h3>
garbeam@34 20 <p>
garbeam@34 21 dwm is a dynamic window manager for X11.
garbeam@34 22 </p>
garbeam@34 23 <h2>Differences to wmii</h2
garbeam@34 24 <p>
garbeam@34 25 In contrast to wmii, dwm is only a window manager, and nothing else.
garbeam@34 26 Hence, it is much smaller, faster and simpler. dwm does
garbeam@34 27 <b>not</b> include following features wmii provides:
garbeam@34 28 </p>
garbeam@34 29 <ul>
garbeam@34 30 <li>9P support</li>
garbeam@34 31 <li>status bar</li>
garbeam@34 32 <li>menu</li>
garbeam@34 33 <li>editable tagbars</li>
garbeam@34 34 <li>shell-based config/control file</li>
garbeam@34 35 <li>small tools (selection printer, mouse warper)</li>
garbeam@34 36 </ul>
garbeam@34 37 <p>
garbeam@34 38 dwm is only a single binary, it's source code is intended to never
garbeam@34 39 exceed 2000 SLOC.
garbeam@34 40 </p>
garbeam@34 41 <p>
garbeam@34 42 dwm is customized through editing its source code, that makes it
garbeam@34 43 extremely fast and secure - it does not process any input data which
garbeam@34 44 hasn't been known at compile time, except window title names.
garbeam@34 45 </p>
garbeam@34 46 <p>
garbeam@34 47 dwm is based on tagging and dynamic window management (however simpler
garbeam@34 48 than wmii or larswm).
garbeam@34 49 </p>
garbeam@34 50 <p>
garbeam@34 51 dwm don't distinguishes between layers, there is no floating or managed
garbeam@34 52 layer. Wether the clients of currently selected tag are managed or not
garbeam@34 53 managed, you can re-arrange all clients on the fly. Popup- and
garbeam@34 54 fixed-size windows are treated unmanaged.
garbeam@34 55 </p>
garbeam@34 56 <p>
garbeam@34 57 dwm uses 1-pixel borders to provide the maximum of screen real
garbeam@34 58 estate to clients. Small titlebars are only drawn in front of unfocused
garbeam@34 59 clients.
garbeam@34 60 </p>
garbeam@34 61 <p>
garbeam@34 62 garbeam <b>don't</b> wants any feedback to dwm. If you ask for support,
garbeam@34 63 feature requests or if you report bugs, they will be <b>ignored</b>
garbeam@34 64 with a high chance. dwm is only intended to fit garbeam's needs,
garbeam@34 65 however you are free to download and distribute/relicense it, with the
garbeam@34 66 conditions of the <a href="http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm?f=f10eb1139362;file=LICENSE;style=raw">MIT/X Consortium license</a>.
garbeam@34 67 </p>
garbeam@34 68 <h2>Development</h2>
garbeam@34 69 <p>
garbeam@34 70 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:
garbeam@34 71 </p>
garbeam@34 72 <p>
garbeam@34 73 <em>hg clone http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm</em>
garbeam@34 74 </p>
garbeam@34 75 <p>--Anselm</p>
garbeam@34 76 </body>
garbeam@34 77 </html>