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arg@118: 			<h3>dynamic window manager</h3>
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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:
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garbeam@96: 		<code>hg clone http://10kloc.org/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm</code>
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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>
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