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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.
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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.
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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.
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40 <ul>
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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.
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48 dwm is only a single binary, it's source code is intended to never
49 exceed 2000 SLOC.
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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.
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57 dwm is based on tagging and dynamic window management (however simpler
58 than wmii or larswm).
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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.
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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.
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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>.
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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)
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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:
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88 <code>hg clone http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm</code>
89 </p>
90 <p>--Anselm (20060713)</p>
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