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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>Philosophy</h3>
  25                 <p>
  26                 As founder and main developer of wmii I came to the conclusion that
  27                 wmii is too clunky for my needs. I don't need so many funky features
  28                 and all this hype about remote control through a 9P service, I only
  29                 want to manage my windows in a simple, but dynamic way. wmii never got
  30                 finished because I listened to users, who proposed arbitrary ideas I
  31                 considered useful. This resulted in an extreme <a href="http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html">CADT</a>
  32                 development model, which was a mistake. Thus the philosophy of
  33                 dwm is simply <i>to fit my needs</i> (maybe yours as well). That's it.
  34                 </p>
  35                 <h3>Differences to wmii</h3
  36                 <p>
  37                 In contrast to wmii, dwm is only a window manager, and nothing else.
  38                 Hence, it is much smaller, faster and simpler.
  39                 </p>
  40                 <ul>
  41                         <li>
  42                         dwm has no 9P support, no status bar, no menu, no editable tagbars,
  43                         no shell-based configuration and remote control and comes without
  44                         any additional tools like printing the selection or warping the
  45                         mouse.
  46                         </li>
  47                         <li>
  48                         dwm is only a single binary, it's source code is intended to never
  49                         exceed 2000 SLOC.
  50                         </li>
  51                         <li>
  52                         dwm is customized through editing its source code, that makes it
  53                         extremely fast and secure - it does not process any input data which
  54                         hasn't been known at compile time, except window title names.
  55                         </li>
  56                         <li>
  57                         dwm is based on tagging and dynamic window management (however simpler
  58                         than wmii or larswm).
  59                         </li>
  60                         <li>
  61                         dwm don't distinguishes between layers, there is no floating or
  62                         managed layer. Wether the clients of currently selected tag are
  63                         managed or not, you can re-arrange all clients on the fly. Popup-
  64                         and fixed-size windows are treated unmanaged.
  65                         </li>
  66                         <li>
  67                         dwm uses 1-pixel borders to provide the maximum of screen real
  68                         estate to clients. Small titlebars are only drawn in front of unfocused
  69                         clients.
  70                         </li>
  71                         <li>
  72                         garbeam <b>does not</b> want any feedback to dwm. If you ask for support,
  73                         feature requests, or if you report bugs, they will be <b>ignored</b>
  74                         with a high chance. dwm is only intended to fit garbeams needs.
  75                         However you are free to download and distribute/relicense it, with the
  76                         conditions of the <a href="http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm?f=f10eb1139362;file=LICENSE;style=raw">MIT/X Consortium license</a>.
  77                         </li>
  78                 </ul>
  79                 <h3>Screenshot</h3>
  80                 <p>
  81                 <a href="http://wmii.de/shots/dwm-20060713.png">Click here for a screenshot</a> (20060713)
  82                 </p>
  83                 <h3>Development</h3>
  84                 <p>
  85                 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:
  86                 </p>
  87                 <p>
  88                 <code>hg clone http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm</code>
  89                 </p>
  90                 <p>--Anselm (20060713)</p>
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