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- <h3>dynamic window manager</h3>
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- <h3>Description</h3>
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- dwm is a dynamic window manager for X11.
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- <h4>Background</h4>
- <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.
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- <h4>Differences to ion, larswm, and wmii</h4>
- <p>
- In contrast to ion, larswm, and wmii, dwm is much smaller, faster and simpler.
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>
- dwm has no Lua integration, no 9P support, no editable
- tagbars, no shell-based configuration, no remote control, and comes
- without any additional tools like printing the selection or warping
- the mouse.
- </li>
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- dwm is only a single binary, it's source code is intended to never
- exceed 2000 SLOC.
- </li>
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- dwm is based on tagging and dynamic window management (however
- simpler than ion, wmii or larswm). It manages windows in
- tiling and floating modes. Either mode can be applied dynamically,
- depending on the application in use and the task performed.
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- dwm don't distinguishes between layers, there is no floating or
- tiled layer. Wether the clients of currently selected tag are in
- tiled mode or not, you can re-arrange all clients on the fly.
- Popup- and fixed-size windows are treated floating, however.
- </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
- and status text read from standard input. You don't have to learn
- Lua/sh/ruby or some weird configuration file format (like X
- resource files), beside C to customize it for your needs,
- you <b>only</b> have to learn C (at least editing header files).
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- Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's
- pointless to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase
- small and elitist. No novices asking stupid questions.
- </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>
- dwm reads from standard input to print arbitrary status text (like
- the date, load, battery charge). That's much simpler than
- larsremote, wmiir and what not...
- </li>
- <li>
- It can be downloaded and distributed under the conditions
- of the <a href="http://10kloc.org/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm?f=f10eb1139362;file=LICENSE;style=raw">MIT/X Consortium license</a>.
- </li>
- <li>
- Optionally you can install <b>dmenu</b> to extend dwm with a wmii-alike menu.
- </li>
- </ul>
- <h4>Links</h4>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="http://10kloc.org/cgi-bin/man/man2html?query=dwm">Man page</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://10kloc.org/shots/dwm-20060810a.png">Screenshot of tiled mode</a> (20060810)</li>
- <li><a href="http://10kloc.org/shots/dwm-20060810b.png">Screenshotof floating mode</a> (20060810)</li>
- <li><a href="http://10kloc.org/download/poster.ps">A4 poster (PostScript)</a></li>
- <li>Mailing List: <a href="http://10kloc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dwm">dwm at wmii dot de</a> <a href="http://10kloc.org/pipermail/dwm/">(Archives)</a></li>
- <li>IRC channel: <code>#dwm</code> at <code>irc.oftc.net</code></li>
- </ul>
- <h3>Download</h3>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="http://10kloc.org/download/dwm-0.7.tar.gz">dwm 0.7</a> (14kb) (20060807)</li>
- <li><a href="http://10kloc.org/download/dmenu-0.2.tar.gz">dmenu 0.2</a> (7kb) (20060807)</li>
- </ul>
- <h3>Development</h3>
- <p>
- dwm is actively developed in parallel to wmii. You can <a href="http://10kloc.org/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://10kloc.org/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm</code>
- </p>
- <p>
- <code>hg clone http://10kloc.org/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dmenu</code>
- </p>
- <h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
- <p>
- You can purchase this <a href="https://www.spreadshirt.net/shop.php?op=article&article_id=3298632&view=403">tricot</a>
- if you like dwm and the dwm logo, which has been designed by Anselm.
- </p>
- <p><small>--Anselm</small></p>
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