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- License:
- GPL
- Price:
- FREE
- Publisher Name:
- Anselm R. Garbe
- Publisher web site:
- http://www.suckless.org/wiki/dwm/about
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WMII 2 Description
A dynamic window manager for X11 WMII is the next generation of wmi. WMII 2 project is a dynamic window manager for X11, which is highly customizable and usable with keyboard and mouse. It supports conventional, tabbed and tiled window management with low memory usage and a vi-alike user interaction.Due to a complete rewrite it is highly modularized and uses a new configuration and inter-process communication interface which is oriented on the 9p protocol of the plan9 operating system.Here are some key features of "WMII":General - xinerama/multihead support (not yet implemented) Window management - tabbed window management- tiled window management- conventional window management- customizable snap-to-border feature Input devices - full keyboard control- improved mouse control Configuration - IXP configuration interface- remote configuration- session support (through configuration) Tools Official utilities (included in wmii) - wmiiwm? (core window manager)- wmimenu? (generic menu)- wmibar? (generic bar)- wmir (wmi remote configuration/shell tool)- wmikeys? (the shortcut handler)- wmifs? (virtual master file system server)- wmiplumb? (plumbing tool)- wmiwarp? (pointer warping tool) Contributed Tools - Szs3rd (the thing to show system, mail, player and other informations... BSD compatible in a few days!)- wmizer (configuration tool)- status-rssw (Gmail Inbox checker status text presentation & other wmii things)- plumbrb (Plumbing handler with regex support) Rendering - cairo rendering backend- Xlib rendering backend- style support- antialiased fonts (cairo rendering backend only) Compliance - POSIX compliance (poorly several GNU libs are not)- ICCCM compliance- partly NETWM compliance (without KDE-/Gnome-only crap)
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