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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>
41 <li>
42 dwm has no 9P support, no editable tagbars, no shell-based
43 configuration and remote control and comes without any additional
44 tools like printing the selection or warping the mouse.
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47 dwm is only a single binary, it's source code is intended to never
48 exceed 2000 SLOC.
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50 <li>
51 dwm is customized through editing its source code, that makes it
52 extremely fast and secure - it does not process any input data which
53 hasn't been known at compile time, except window title names.
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55 <li>
56 dwm is based on tagging and dynamic window management (however simpler
57 than wmii or larswm).
58 </li>
59 <li>
60 dwm don't distinguishes between layers, there is no floating or
61 managed layer. Wether the clients of currently selected tag are
62 managed or not, you can re-arrange all clients on the fly. Popup-
63 and fixed-size windows are treated unmanaged.
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66 dwm uses 1-pixel borders to provide the maximum of screen real
67 estate to clients. Small titlebars are only drawn in front of unfocused
68 clients.
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70 <li>
71 dwm reads from <b>stdin</b> to print arbitrary status text (like the
72 date, load, battery charge). That's much simpler than larsremote,
73 wmiir and what not...
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75 <li>
76 Anselm <b>does not</b> want any feedback to dwm. If you ask for support,
77 feature requests, or if you report bugs, they will be <b>ignored</b>
78 with a high chance. dwm is only intended to fit Anselms needs.
79 However you are free to download and distribute/relicense it, with the
80 conditions of the <a href="http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm?f=f10eb1139362;file=LICENSE;style=raw">MIT/X Consortium license</a>.
81 </li>
82 </ul>
83 <h3>Screenshot</h3>
84 <p>
85 <a href="http://wmii.de/shots/dwm-20060714.png">Click here for a screenshot</a> (20060714)
86 </p>
87 <h3>Development</h3>
88 <p>
89 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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92 <code>hg clone http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm</code>
93 </p>
94 <h3>Download</h3>
95 <ul>
96 <li><a href="http://wmii.de/download/dwm-0.2.tar.gz">dwm 0.2</a> (13kb) (20060717)</li>
97 </ul>
98 <h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
99 <p>
100 You can purchase this <a href="https://www.spreadshirt.net/shop.php?op=article&article_id=3298632&view=403">tricot</a>
101 if you like dwm and the dwm logo, which has been designed by Anselm.
102 </p>
103 <p><small>--Anselm (20060714)</small></p>
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