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                <meta name="copyright" content="(C)opyright 2006 by Anselm R. Garbe">
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                <meta name="copyright" content="(C)opyright 2006 by Anselm R. Garbe">

+               <link rel="dwm icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

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                <p>
                dwm is a dynamic window manager for X11.
                </p>
                <p>
                dwm is a dynamic window manager for X11.
                </p>

-               <h3>Philosophy</h3>
+               <h4>Background</h4>

                <p>
                As founder and main developer of wmii I came to the conclusion that
                wmii is too clunky for my needs. I don't need so many funky features
                and all this hype about remote control through a 9P service, I only
                want to manage my windows in a simple, but dynamic way. wmii never got
                finished because I listened to users, who proposed arbitrary ideas I
                <p>
                As founder and main developer of wmii I came to the conclusion that
                wmii is too clunky for my needs. I don't need so many funky features
                and all this hype about remote control through a 9P service, I only
                want to manage my windows in a simple, but dynamic way. wmii never got
                finished because I listened to users, who proposed arbitrary ideas I

-               considered useful. This resulted in an extreme <a href="http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html">CADT</a>
-               development model, which was a mistake. Thus the philosophy of
-               dwm is simply <i>to fit my needs</i> (maybe yours as well). That's it.
+               considered useful. This resulted in an extreme <a
+               href="http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html">CADT</a> development model,
+               which was a mistake. Thus the philosophy of dwm is simply <i>to fit my
+               needs</i> (maybe yours as well). That's it.

                </p>
                </p>

-               <h3>Differences to wmii</h3     
+               <h4>Differences to ion, larswm, and wmii</h4>

                <p>
                <p>

-               In contrast to wmii, dwm is only a window manager, and nothing else.
-               Hence, it is much smaller, faster and simpler.
+               In contrast to ion, larswm, and wmii, dwm is much smaller, faster and simpler.

                </p>
                <ul>
                        <li>
                </p>
                <ul>
                        <li>

-                       dwm has no 9P support, no menu, no editable tagbars,
-                       no shell-based configuration and remote control and comes without
-                       any additional tools like printing the selection or warping the
-                       mouse.
+                       dwm has no Lua integration, no 9P support, no editable
+                       tagbars, no shell-based configuration, no remote control, and comes
+                       without any additional tools like printing the selection or warping
+                       the mouse.

                        </li>
                        <li>
                        dwm is only a single binary, it's source code is intended to never
                        exceed 2000 SLOC.
                        </li>
                        <li>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                        dwm is only a single binary, it's source code is intended to never
                        exceed 2000 SLOC.
                        </li>
                        <li>

-                       dwm is customized through editing its source code, that makes it
-                       extremely fast and secure - it does not process any input data which
-                       hasn't been known at compile time, except window title names.
+                       dwm is based on tagging and dynamic window management (however
+                       simpler than ion, wmii or larswm). It manages windows in
+                       tiling and floating modes. Either mode can be applied dynamically,
+                       depending on the application in use and the task performed.
+                       </li>
+                       <li>
+                       dwm doesn't distinguishes between layers, there is no floating or
+                       tiled layer. Wether the clients of currently selected tag are in
+                       tiled mode or not, you can re-arrange all clients on the fly.
+                       Popup- and fixed-size windows are treated floating, however. 

                        </li>
                        <li>
                        </li>
                        <li>

-                       dwm is based on tagging and dynamic window management (however simpler
-                       than wmii or larswm).
+                       dwm is customized through editing its source code, that makes it
+                       extremely fast and secure - it does not process any input data
+                       which hasn't been known at compile time, except window title names
+                       and status text read from standard input. You don't have to learn
+                       Lua/sh/ruby or some weird configuration file format (like X
+                       resource files), beside C to customize it for your needs,
+                       you <b>only</b> have to learn C (at least editing header files).

                        </li>
                        <li>
                        </li>
                        <li>

-                       dwm don't distinguishes between layers, there is no floating or
-                       managed layer. Wether the clients of currently selected tag are
-                       managed or not, you can re-arrange all clients on the fly. Popup-
-                       and fixed-size windows are treated unmanaged. 
+                       Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's
+                       pointless to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase
+                       small and elitist. No novices asking stupid questions.

                        </li>
                        <li>
                        dwm uses 1-pixel borders to provide the maximum of screen real
                        </li>
                        <li>
                        dwm uses 1-pixel borders to provide the maximum of screen real

-                       estate to clients. Small titlebars are only drawn in front of unfocused
-                       clients.
+                       estate to clients. Small titlebars are only drawn in front of
+                       unfocused clients.

                        </li>
                        <li>
                        </li>
                        <li>

-                       dwm reads from <b>stdin</b> to print arbitrary status text (like the
-                       date, load, battery charge). That's much simpler than larsremote,
-                       wmiir and what not...
+                       dwm reads from standard input to print arbitrary status text (like
+                       the date, load, battery charge). That's much simpler than
+                       larsremote, wmiir and what not...

                        </li>
                        <li>
                        </li>
                        <li>

-                       garbeam <b>does not</b> want any feedback to dwm. If you ask for support,
-                       feature requests, or if you report bugs, they will be <b>ignored</b>
-                       with a high chance. dwm is only intended to fit garbeams needs.
-                       However you are free to download and distribute/relicense it, with the
-                       conditions of the <a href="http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm?f=f10eb1139362;file=LICENSE;style=raw">MIT/X Consortium license</a>.
+                       It can be downloaded and distributed under the conditions
+                       of the <a href="http://10kloc.org/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm?f=f10eb1139362;file=LICENSE;style=raw">MIT/X Consortium license</a>.

                        </li>
                        </li>

+                       <li>
+                       Optionally you can install <b>dmenu</b> to extend dwm with a wmii-alike menu.
+                       </li>
+               </ul>
+               <h4>Links</h4>
+               <ul>
+                       <li><a href="http://10kloc.org/cgi-bin/man/man2html?query=dwm">Man page</a></li>
+                       <li><a href="http://10kloc.org/shots/dwm-20060810a.png">Screenshot of tiled mode</a> (20060810)</li>
+                       <li><a href="http://10kloc.org/shots/dwm-20060810b.png">Screenshotof floating mode</a> (20060810)</li>
+                       <li><a href="http://10kloc.org/download/poster.ps">A4 poster (PostScript)</a></li>
+                       <li>Mailing List: <a href="http://10kloc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dwm">dwm at wmii dot de</a> <a href="http://10kloc.org/pipermail/dwm/">(Archives)</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.dwm">(GMANE Archive)</a></li>
+                       <li>IRC channel: <code>#dwm</code> at <code>irc.oftc.net</code></li>
+               </ul>
+               <h3>Download</h3>
+               <ul>
+                       <li><a href="http://10kloc.org/download/dwm-1.2.tar.gz">dwm 1.2</a> (15kb) (20060830)</li>
+                       <li><a href="http://10kloc.org/download/dmenu-0.6.tar.gz">dmenu 0.6</a> (7kb) (20060828)</li>

                </ul>
                </ul>

-               <h3>Screenshot</h3>
+               <h3>Development</h3>

                <p>
                <p>

-               <a href="http://wmii.de/shots/dwm-20060714.png">Click here for a screenshot</a> (20060714)
+               dwm is actively developed in parallel to wmii. You can <a href="http://10kloc.org/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:

                </p>
                </p>

-               <h3>Development</h3>

                <p>
                <p>

-               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:
+               <code>hg clone http://10kloc.org/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm</code>

                </p>
                <p>
                </p>
                <p>

-               <code>hg clone http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dwm</code>
+               <code>hg clone http://10kloc.org/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/dmenu</code>

                </p>
                </p>

-               <h3>Download</h3>
-               <p>There is no release yet.</p>

                <h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
                <p>
                You can purchase this <a href="https://www.spreadshirt.net/shop.php?op=article&article_id=3298632&view=403">tricot</a>
                <h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
                <p>
                You can purchase this <a href="https://www.spreadshirt.net/shop.php?op=article&article_id=3298632&view=403">tricot</a>

-               if you like dwm and the dwm logo, which has been designed by garbeam.
+               if you like dwm and the dwm logo, which has been designed by Anselm.

                </p>
                </p>

-               <p><small>--Anselm (20060714)</small></p>
+               <p><small>--Anselm</small></p>

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