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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>Differences to wmii</h3
25 <p>
26 In contrast to wmii, dwm is only a window manager, and nothing else.
27 Hence, it is much smaller, faster and simpler.
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29 <ul>
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31 dwm has no 9P support, no status bar, no menu, no editable tagbars,
32 no shell-based configuration and remote control and comes without
33 any additional tools like printing the selection or warping the
34 mouse.
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36 <li>
37 dwm is only a single binary, it's source code is intended to never
38 exceed 2000 SLOC.
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41 dwm is customized through editing its source code, that makes it
42 extremely fast and secure - it does not process any input data which
43 hasn't been known at compile time, except window title names.
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46 dwm is based on tagging and dynamic window management (however simpler
47 than wmii or larswm).
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50 dwm don't distinguishes between layers, there is no floating or
51 managed layer. Wether the clients of currently selected tag are
52 managed or not, you can re-arrange all clients on the fly. Popup-
53 and fixed-size windows are treated unmanaged.
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56 dwm uses 1-pixel borders to provide the maximum of screen real
57 estate to clients. Small titlebars are only drawn in front of unfocused
58 clients.
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61 garbeam <b>don't</b> wants any feedback to dwm. If you ask for support,
62 feature requests or if you report bugs, they will be <b>ignored</b>
63 with a high chance. dwm is only intended to fit garbeam's needs,
64 however you are free to download and distribute/relicense it, with the
65 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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67 </ul>
68 <h3>Screenshot</h3>
69 <p>
70 <a href="http://wmii.de/shots/dwm-20060713.png">Click here for a screenshot</a> (20060713)
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72 <h3>Development</h3>
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74 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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77 <code>hg clone http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm</code>
78 </p>
79 <p>--Anselm (20060713)</p>
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