On the other hand, it requires a lot more stuff to build.Ĭloog-ppl x86_64 0.15.9-3.fc15 fedora 92 k On the other hand, it's the only window manager I know of that ends its home page with a Barney Stinson quote, so it gets points for that, and, judging from that, I suspect the name itself was inspired by Barney, so it gets even more points for that. I think awesome was at least partially based on dwm, but is also a lot bigger. For what it's worth, dwm is about half the size of scrotwm, 40k vs. The scrotwm manager also has a more easily understood configuration file-but the differences, for the times when I would use a tiling manager, e.g., on a netbook that I basically use to browse or perhaps log into my main machine, are minimal. I do find that I prefer the somewhat unwisely named scrotwm, not available in the repos, a little better, simply because it makes it a bit easier to evenly tile windows-dwm keeps a main window, and I haven't read enough to figure out how to make more than one. You can add your favorite applications to the config.h file-it seems tricky, but even for me, who can't even write a simple a C program, the pattern is fairly easy to follow. Running man dwm gives the basic keyboard shortcuts. You can also do Mod4+f to make it float, which I haven't done. To put things back hit Mod4+t for tile and it will go back to how it hopefully, that gives you a few things to start with. If you already have several windows tiled, and want to maximize firefox, you can hit Mod4+m (for monocle mode, or maximize if it's easier to remember) and that window takes over the screen. So, if you hit Mod4+p and type fire for example, the word firefox will appear, and will then open when you hit enter. Hitting Mod4+p opens dmenu, where you can type a few letters of any command, which will autocomplete-at that point, you can hit enter and the command will run. Doing it a few more times opens up more terminals. While I still find that I need a few features of openbox or fluxbox, I think I will use dwm on netbooks or machines where I'm in a hurry and only need a few things. One copies a config.h to their home directory, and it's read any time one starts X with dwm-start.įor those who don't bother with dwm start and just recompile and reinstall it each time they change config.h, the recompiling takes about (literally) 5 seconds. I like the way Fedora has done it, and take my hat off to them.įirstly, they've altered the default mod key from Mod1 (alt) to Mod4 (the Windows key), which I usually do as soon as I install dwm. Ok, I've been playing with dwm for a little while now.
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