dwm
dwm is a minimalistic window manager. It manages windows in tiling and
floating modes. Either mode can be applied dynamically, depending on
the application in use and the task performed.
In tiling mode windows are managed in a master and stacking
column. The master column contains the window which needs most
attention at a time, whereas the stacking column contains all other
windows in a stack. Dialog windows are managed floating, however.
In floating mode windows can be resized and moved freely.
Windows are grouped by tags. All windows with a specific tag can be
viewed at a time. But each window may contain more than one tag, which
makes it visible in several views.
dwm consists of a small status bar which reads the text
displayed from standard input, if written. It draws 1-pixel borders
around windows to indicate the focus state. Unfocused windows contain a
small bar in front of the window displaying the tags and the window
title.
dwm 6.0
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Price
Free to download
Size
20KB
License
MIT
Developer
Anselm R. Garbe
Website
dwm.suckless.org
System Requirements
Support
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Features include:
- Very light on resources; only 20kb download
- Has no Lua integration, no 9P support, no shell-based
configuration, no
remote control, and comes without any additional tools, such as for
printing the selection or warping the mouse
- Does not distinguish between layers: no floating or tiled
layer
- Based on tagging and dynamic window management
- Customized by editing and recompiling its source code (the
config.h file); no configuration files
- Uses a combination of focus-follows-mouse and keyboard
focus switch only
- Uses 1-pixel borders to provide the maximum of screen real
estate to
clients. Small titlebars are only drawn in front of unfocused clients
- Reads from standard input to print arbitrary status text
(like the date,
load, battery charge)
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