dwm
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For other uses, see DWM.
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 dwm-4.7 showing rxvt, dclock and ROX-Filer |
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| Developed by | Anselm R. Garbe |
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| Latest release | 5.2 / 09 September 2008 |
| Written in | C |
| OS | Unix-like |
| Type | Window manager |
| License | MIT License |
| Website | suckless.org/dwm |
dwm is a minimalist dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It is externally similar to wmii, but internally much simpler. dwm is written purely in C and, for simplicity, lacks any configuration interface besides editing the source code. One of the project's guidelines is that the source code will never exceed 2000 lines, and options meant to be user-configurable are all contained in a single header file.
An interesting feature of dwm is that it optionally displays its STDIN in