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