garbeam@34: <html> garbeam@34: <head> garbeam@34: <title>dwm - dynamic window manager</title> garbeam@34: <meta name="author" content="Anselm R. Garbe"> garbeam@34: <meta name="generator" content="ed"> garbeam@34: <meta name="copyright" content="(C)opyright 2006 by Anselm R. Garbe"> garbeam@34: <style type="text/css"> garbeam@34: body { garbeam@34: color: #000000; garbeam@34: font-family: sans-serif; garbeam@36: margin: 20px 20px 20px 20px; garbeam@34: } garbeam@34: </style> garbeam@34: </head> garbeam@34: <body> garbeam@34: <center> garbeam@35: <img src="dwm.png"/><br /> garbeam@34: <h3>dynamic window manager</h3> garbeam@36: </center> garbeam@36: <h3>Description</h3> garbeam@34: <p> garbeam@34: dwm is a dynamic window manager for X11. garbeam@34: </p> garbeam@47: <h3>Philosophy</h3> garbeam@47: <p> 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 <a href="http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html">CADT</a> garbeam@48: development model, which was a mistake. Thus the philosophy of garbeam@48: dwm is simply <i>to fit my needs</i> (maybe yours as well). That's it. garbeam@47: </p> garbeam@36: <h3>Differences to wmii</h3 garbeam@34: <p> 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: </p> garbeam@34: <ul> garbeam@36: <li> garbeam@84: dwm has no 9P support, no editable tagbars, no shell-based garbeam@84: configuration and remote control and comes without any additional garbeam@84: tools like printing the selection or warping the mouse. garbeam@36: </li> garbeam@36: <li> garbeam@36: dwm is only a single binary, it's source code is intended to never garbeam@36: exceed 2000 SLOC. garbeam@36: </li> garbeam@36: <li> 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: </li> garbeam@36: <li> garbeam@36: dwm is based on tagging and dynamic window management (however simpler garbeam@36: than wmii or larswm). garbeam@36: </li> garbeam@36: <li> 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: </li> garbeam@36: <li> 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: </li> garbeam@36: <li> garbeam@59: dwm reads from <b>stdin</b> 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: </li> garbeam@58: <li> garbeam@78: Anselm <b>does not</b> want any feedback to dwm. If you ask for support, garbeam@46: feature requests, or if you report bugs, they will be <b>ignored</b> 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 <a href="http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm?f=f10eb1139362;file=LICENSE;style=raw">MIT/X Consortium license</a>. garbeam@36: </li> garbeam@34: </ul> garbeam@36: <h3>Screenshot</h3> garbeam@34: <p> garbeam@59: <a href="http://wmii.de/shots/dwm-20060714.png">Click here for a screenshot</a> (20060714) garbeam@34: </p> garbeam@36: <h3>Development</h3> garbeam@34: <p> garbeam@34: 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: </p> garbeam@34: <p> garbeam@36: <code>hg clone http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm</code> garbeam@34: </p> garbeam@58: <h3>Download</h3> garbeam@68: <ul> garbeam@85: <li><a href="http://wmii.de/download/dwm-0.2.tar.gz">dwm 0.2</a> (13kb) (20060717)</li> garbeam@68: </ul> garbeam@58: <h3>Miscellaneous</h3> garbeam@58: <p> garbeam@58: You can purchase this <a href="https://www.spreadshirt.net/shop.php?op=article&article_id=3298632&view=403">tricot</a> garbeam@78: if you like dwm and the dwm logo, which has been designed by Anselm. garbeam@58: </p> garbeam@58: <p><small>--Anselm (20060714)</small></p> garbeam@34: </body> garbeam@34: </html>