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   3                 <title>dwm - dynamic window manager</title>
   4                 <meta name="author" content="Anselm R. Garbe">
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  17                         <h3>dynamic window manager</h3>
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  19                 <h2>Description</h3>
  20                 <p>
  21                 dwm is a dynamic window manager for X11.
  22                 </p>
  23                 <h2>Differences to wmii</h2
  24                 <p>
  25                 In contrast to wmii, dwm is only a window manager, and nothing else.
  26                 Hence, it is much smaller, faster and simpler. dwm does
  27                 <b>not</b> include following features wmii provides:
  28                 </p>
  29                 <ul>
  30                         <li>9P support</li>
  31                         <li>status bar</li>
  32                         <li>menu</li>
  33                         <li>editable tagbars</li>
  34                         <li>shell-based config/control file</li>
  35                         <li>small tools (selection printer, mouse warper)</li>
  36                 </ul>
  37                 <p>
  38                 dwm is only a single binary, it's source code is intended to never
  39                 exceed 2000 SLOC.
  40                 </p>
  41                 <p>
  42                 dwm is customized through editing its source code, that makes it
  43                 extremely fast and secure - it does not process any input data which
  44                 hasn't been known at compile time, except window title names.
  45                 </p>
  46                 <p>
  47                 dwm is based on tagging and dynamic window management (however simpler
  48                 than wmii or larswm).
  49                 </p>
  50                 <p>
  51                 dwm don't distinguishes between layers, there is no floating or managed
  52                 layer. Wether the clients of currently selected tag are managed or not
  53                 managed, you can re-arrange all clients on the fly. Popup- and
  54                 fixed-size windows are treated unmanaged.
  55                 </p>
  56                 <p>
  57                 dwm uses 1-pixel borders to provide the maximum of screen real
  58                 estate to clients. Small titlebars are only drawn in front of unfocused
  59                 clients.
  60                 </p>
  61                 <p>
  62                 garbeam <b>don't</b> wants any feedback to dwm. If you ask for support,
  63                 feature requests or if you report bugs, they will be <b>ignored</b>
  64                 with a high chance. dwm is only intended to fit garbeam's needs,
  65                 however you are free to download and distribute/relicense it, with the
  66                 conditions of the <a href="http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm?f=f10eb1139362;file=LICENSE;style=raw">MIT/X Consortium license</a>.
  67                 </p>
  68                 <h2>Development</h2>
  69                 <p>
  70                 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:
  71                 </p>
  72                 <p>
  73                 <em>hg clone http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm</em>
  74                 </p>
  75                 <p>--Anselm</p>
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