Dwm

This article is about the X11 window manager. For other uses, see DWM (disambiguation).
For the window manager used in Microsoft Windows since Vista, see Desktop Window Manager.
dwm
Original author(s)Anselm R. Garbe[1]
Developer(s)suckless.org
Initial releaseJuly 14, 2006; 18 years ago (2006-07-14)[2]
Stable release
6.5[3] Edit this on Wikidata / 19 March 2024
Repository
Written inC
Operating systemUnix-like
Size26 KB (source code)[4]
TypeWindow manager
LicenseMIT[5]
Websitedwm.suckless.org
dwm's xinerama support: tiling on two screens simultaneously

dwm is a minimalist dynamic window manager for the X Window System developed by Suckless that has influenced the development of several other X window managers, including xmonad[6] and awesome.[7][8] It is externally similar to wmii, but internally much simpler. dwm is written purely in C for performance[9] and lacks any configuration interface besides editing the source code.[10] One of the project's guidelines is that the source code is intended never to exceed 2000 SLOC, and options meant to be user-configurable are all contained in a single header file.[8]

  1. ^ Garbe, Anselm R. "Anselm R Garbe". garbe.us. Archived from the original on 2009-11-25. Retrieved 2011-05-15.
  2. ^ 0.1 Release tag
  3. ^ . 19 March 2024 https://git.suckless.org/dwm/commit/061e9fe9a7db396c0c4f3d996c3908fb43a6d50c.html. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ^ "dwm dynamic window manager". dwm.suckless.org. Retrieved January 23, 2022.
  5. ^ "MIT/X Consortium License". suckless.org. Retrieved 2015-05-04.
  6. ^ Kolmodin, Lennart (April 2, 2007). "xmonad". Bits and Bytes. Retrieved 2011-05-15.
  7. ^ Danjou, Julien (20 Sep 2007). "Announcing 'awesome'". dwm (Mailing list). Archived from the original on 3 April 2010. Retrieved 2011-05-15.
  8. ^ a b Auza, Jun (August 2, 2008). "20 Most Nimble and Simple X Window Managers for Linux". TechSource.
  9. ^ "dwm home page". dwm is customized through editing its source code, which makes it extremely fast and secure - it does not process any input data which isn't known at compile time
  10. ^ Byfield, Bruce (2007-05-31). "Keyboard-driven environments open a new window on the desktop". Linux.com. SourceForge, Inc. Archived from the original on 2022-03-27. Retrieved 2010-03-01.