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   3                 <title>dwm - dynamic window manager</title>
   4                 <meta name="author" content="Anselm R. Garbe">
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  18                         <h3>dynamic window manager</h3>
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  20                 <h3>Description</h3>
  21                 <p>
  22                 dwm is a dynamic window manager for X11.
  23                 </p>
  24                 <h3>Differences to wmii</h3
  25                 <p>
  26                 In contrast to wmii, dwm is only a window manager, and nothing else.
  27                 Hence, it is much smaller, faster and simpler.
  28                 </p>
  29                 <ul>
  30                         <li>
  31                         dwm has no 9P support, no status bar, no menu, no editable tagbars,
  32                         no shell-based configuration and remote control and comes without
  33                         any additional tools like printing the selection or warping the
  34                         mouse.
  35                         </li>
  36                         <li>
  37                         dwm is only a single binary, it's source code is intended to never
  38                         exceed 2000 SLOC.
  39                         </li>
  40                         <li>
  41                         dwm is customized through editing its source code, that makes it
  42                         extremely fast and secure - it does not process any input data which
  43                         hasn't been known at compile time, except window title names.
  44                         </li>
  45                         <li>
  46                         dwm is based on tagging and dynamic window management (however simpler
  47                         than wmii or larswm).
  48                         </li>
  49                         <li>
  50                         dwm don't distinguishes between layers, there is no floating or
  51                         managed layer. Wether the clients of currently selected tag are
  52                         managed or not, you can re-arrange all clients on the fly. Popup-
  53                         and fixed-size windows are treated unmanaged.
  54                         </li>
  55                         <li>
  56                         dwm uses 1-pixel borders to provide the maximum of screen real
  57                         estate to clients. Small titlebars are only drawn in front of unfocused
  58                         clients.
  59                         </li>
  60                         <li>
  61                         garbeam <b>does not</b> want any feedback to dwm. If you ask for support,
  62                         feature requests or if you report bugs, they will be <b>ignored</b>
  63                         with a high chance. dwm is only intended to fit garbeam's needs,
  64                         however you are free to download and distribute/relicense it, with the
  65                         conditions of the <a href="http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm?f=f10eb1139362;file=LICENSE;style=raw">MIT/X Consortium license</a>.
  66                         </li>
  67                 </ul>
  68                 <h3>Screenshot</h3>
  69                 <p>
  70                 <a href="http://wmii.de/shots/dwm-20060713.png">Click here for a screenshot</a> (20060713)
  71                 </p>
  72                 <h3>Development</h3>
  73                 <p>
  74                 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:
  75                 </p>
  76                 <p>
  77                 <code>hg clone http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm</code>
  78                 </p>
  79                 <p>--Anselm (20060713)</p>
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