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- <h3>dynamic window manager</h3>
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- <h3>Description</h3>
- <p>
- dwm is a dynamic window manager for X11.
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- <h3>Philosophy</h3>
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- As founder and main developer of wmii I came to the conclusion that
- wmii is too clunky for my needs. I don't need so many funky features
- and all this hype about remote control through a 9P service, I only
- want to manage my windows in a simple, but dynamic way. wmii never got
- finished because I listened to users, who proposed arbitrary ideas I
- considered useful. This resulted in an extreme <a href="http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html">CADT model</a>
- of developmentwhich was basically my mistake. Thus the philosophy of
- dwm is to fit my needs. That's it.
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- <h3>Differences to wmii</h3
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- In contrast to wmii, dwm is only a window manager, and nothing else.
- Hence, it is much smaller, faster and simpler.
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- <ul>
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- dwm has no 9P support, no status bar, no menu, no editable tagbars,
- no shell-based configuration and remote control and comes without
- any additional tools like printing the selection or warping the
- mouse.
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- dwm is only a single binary, it's source code is intended to never
- exceed 2000 SLOC.
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- dwm is customized through editing its source code, that makes it
- extremely fast and secure - it does not process any input data which
- hasn't been known at compile time, except window title names.
- </li>
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- dwm is based on tagging and dynamic window management (however simpler
- than wmii or larswm).
- </li>
- <li>
- dwm don't distinguishes between layers, there is no floating or
- managed layer. Wether the clients of currently selected tag are
- managed or not, you can re-arrange all clients on the fly. Popup-
- and fixed-size windows are treated unmanaged.
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- dwm uses 1-pixel borders to provide the maximum of screen real
- estate to clients. Small titlebars are only drawn in front of unfocused
- clients.
- </li>
- <li>
- garbeam <b>does not</b> want any feedback to dwm. If you ask for support,
- feature requests, or if you report bugs, they will be <b>ignored</b>
- with a high chance. dwm is only intended to fit garbeams needs.
- However you are free to download and distribute/relicense it, with the
- conditions of the <a href="http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm?f=f10eb1139362;file=LICENSE;style=raw">MIT/X Consortium license</a>.
- </li>
- </ul>
- <h3>Screenshot</h3>
- <p>
- <a href="http://wmii.de/shots/dwm-20060713.png">Click here for a screenshot</a> (20060713)
- </p>
- <h3>Development</h3>
- <p>
- 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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- <code>hg clone http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm</code>
- </p>
- <p>--Anselm (20060713)</p>
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