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- <img src="logo.png"/><br />
+ <img src="dwm.png"/><br />
<h3>dynamic window manager</h3>
- <center>
- <h2>Description</h3>
+ </center>
+ <h3>Description</h3>
<p>
dwm is a dynamic window manager for X11.
</p>
- <h2>Differences to wmii</h2
+ <h3>Philosophy</h3>
+ <p>
+ 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</a>
+ development model, which was a mistake. Thus the philosophy of
+ dwm is simply <i>to fit my needs</i> (maybe yours as well). That's it.
+ </p>
+ <h3>Differences to wmii</h3
<p>
In contrast to wmii, dwm is only a window manager, and nothing else.
- Hence, it is much smaller, faster and simpler. dwm does
- <b>not</b> include following features wmii provides:
+ Hence, it is much smaller, faster and simpler.
</p>
<ul>
- <li>9P support</li>
- <li>status bar</li>
- <li>menu</li>
- <li>editable tagbars</li>
- <li>shell-based config/control file</li>
- <li>small tools (selection printer, mouse warper)</li>
+ <li>
+ 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.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ dwm is only a single binary, it's source code is intended to never
+ exceed 2000 SLOC.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ 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>
+ <li>
+ 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.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ 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>
- dwm is only a single binary, it's source code is intended to never
- exceed 2000 SLOC.
- </p>
- <p>
- 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.
- </p>
- <p>
- dwm is based on tagging and dynamic window management (however simpler
- than wmii or larswm).
- </p>
- <p>
- dwm don't distinguishes between layers, there is no floating or managed
- layer. Wether the clients of currently selected tag are managed or not
- managed, you can re-arrange all clients on the fly. Popup- and
- fixed-size windows are treated unmanaged.
- </p>
- <p>
- 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.
- </p>
- <p>
- garbeam <b>don't</b> wants 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 garbeam's 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>.
+ <a href="http://wmii.de/shots/dwm-20060713.png">Click here for a screenshot</a> (20060713)
</p>
- <h2>Development</h2>
+ <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:
</p>
<p>
- <em>hg clone http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm</em>
+ <code>hg clone http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm</code>
</p>
- <p>--Anselm</p>
+ <p>--Anselm (20060713)</p>
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