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											<h3>dynamic window manager</h3>
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										<h2>Description</h3>
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										dwm is a dynamic window manager for X11.
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										<h2>Differences to wmii</h2	
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										In contrast to wmii, dwm is only a window manager, and nothing else.
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										Hence, it is much smaller, faster and simpler. dwm does
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										<b>not</b> include following features wmii provides:
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											<li>9P support</li>
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											<li>status bar</li>
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											<li>menu</li>
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											<li>editable tagbars</li>
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											<li>shell-based config/control file</li>
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											<li>small tools (selection printer, mouse warper)</li>
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										dwm is only a single binary, it's source code is intended to never
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										exceed 2000 SLOC.
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										dwm is customized through editing its source code, that makes it
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										extremely fast and secure - it does not process any input data which
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										hasn't been known at compile time, except window title names.
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										dwm is based on tagging and dynamic window management (however simpler
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										than wmii or larswm).
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										dwm don't distinguishes between layers, there is no floating or managed
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										layer. Wether the clients of currently selected tag are managed or not
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										managed, you can re-arrange all clients on the fly. Popup- and
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										fixed-size windows are treated unmanaged. 
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										dwm uses 1-pixel borders to provide the maximum of screen real
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										estate to clients. Small titlebars are only drawn in front of unfocused
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										clients.
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										garbeam <b>don't</b> wants any feedback to dwm. If you ask for support,
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										feature requests or if you report bugs, they will be <b>ignored</b>
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										with a high chance. dwm is only intended to fit garbeam's needs,
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										however you are free to download and distribute/relicense it, with the
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										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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										<h2>Development</h2>
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										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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										<em>hg clone http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm</em>
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										<p>--Anselm</p>
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