<html><head><title>dwm - dynamic window manager</title><metaname="author"content="Anselm R. Garbe"><metaname="generator"content="ed"><metaname="copyright"content="(C)opyright 2006 by Anselm R. Garbe"><styletype="text/css">body{color:#000000;font-family:sans-serif;}</style></head><body><center><imgsrc="dwm.png"/><br/><h3>dynamic window manager</h3><center><h2>Description</h3><p> dwm is a dynamic window manager for X11.</p><h2>Differences to wmii</h2 <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:</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></ul><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 <ahref="http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm?f=f10eb1139362;file=LICENSE;style=raw">MIT/X Consortium license</a>.</p><h2>Development</h2><p> dwm is actively developed in parallel to wmii. You can <ahref="http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm">browse</a> its source code repository or get a copy using <ahref="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/">Mercurial</a> with following command:</p><p><em>hg clone http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm</em></p><p>--Anselm</p></body></html>