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"> arg@249: <link rel="dwm icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" /> 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 /> arg@118: <h3>dynamic window manager</h3> garbeam@36: </center> arg@118: <h3>Description</h3> garbeam@34: <p> garbeam@34: dwm is a dynamic window manager for X11. garbeam@34: </p> arg@222: <h4>Background</h4> 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@88: considered useful. This resulted in an extreme <a garbeam@88: href="http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html">CADT</a> development model, garbeam@88: which was a mistake. Thus the philosophy of dwm is simply <i>to fit my garbeam@88: needs</i> (maybe yours as well). That's it. garbeam@47: </p> garbeam@90: <h4>Differences to ion, larswm, and wmii</h4> garbeam@34: <p> garbeam@88: In contrast to ion, larswm, and wmii, dwm is much smaller, faster and simpler. garbeam@34: </p> garbeam@34: <ul> garbeam@36: <li> arg@205: dwm has no Lua integration, no 9P support, 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: </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@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: </li> garbeam@36: <li> arg@244: dwm doesn'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: </li> garbeam@88: <li> 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, arg@155: you <b>only</b> have to learn C (at least editing header files). garbeam@88: </li> garbeam@88: <li> 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: </li> garbeam@36: <li> 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: </li> garbeam@36: <li> 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: </li> garbeam@58: <li> garbeam@90: It can be downloaded and distributed under the conditions garbeam@96: 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: </li> arg@205: <li> arg@205: Optionally you can install <b>dmenu</b> to extend dwm with a wmii-alike menu. arg@205: </li> garbeam@34: </ul> garbeam@90: <h4>Links</h4> garbeam@89: <ul> garbeam@96: <li><a href="http://10kloc.org/cgi-bin/man/man2html?query=dwm">Man page</a></li> arg@241: <li><a href="http://10kloc.org/shots/dwm-20060810a.png">Screenshot of tiled mode</a> (20060810)</li> arg@241: <li><a href="http://10kloc.org/shots/dwm-20060810b.png">Screenshotof floating mode</a> (20060810)</li> garbeam@96: <li><a href="http://10kloc.org/download/poster.ps">A4 poster (PostScript)</a></li> garbeam@96: <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></li> garbeam@89: <li>IRC channel: <code>#dwm</code> at <code>irc.oftc.net</code></li> garbeam@89: </ul> arg@155: <h3>Download</h3> arg@155: <ul> arg@296: <li><a href="http://10kloc.org/download/dwm-0.9.tar.gz">dwm 0.9</a> (15kb) (20060815)</li> arg@296: <li><a href="http://10kloc.org/download/dmenu-0.4.tar.gz">dmenu 0.4</a> (7kb) (20060815)</li> arg@155: </ul> arg@118: <h3>Development</h3> garbeam@34: <p> garbeam@96: 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: </p> garbeam@34: <p> garbeam@96: <code>hg clone http://10kloc.org/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm</code> garbeam@34: </p> arg@188: <p> arg@188: <code>hg clone http://10kloc.org/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dmenu</code> arg@188: </p> arg@118: <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> arg@169: <p><small>--Anselm</small></p> garbeam@34: </body> garbeam@34: </html>