WINDOW MANAGER IMPROVED 2
wmii is a small, dynamic window manager for X11. It is scriptable, has a 9p filesystem interface and supports classic and tiling (acme-like) window management. It aims to maintain a small and clean (read hackable and beautiful) codebase.
Links
- Latest release: wmii-3.6 (Note that it requires dmenu and libixp-0.4, p9p recommended)
- Latest snapshot: wmii+ixp-20080520
- Latest devel tip:
hg clone http://code.suckless.org/hg/wmii - Bugs: Google Code issue tracker
- Mailing List:
wmii+subscribe@suckless.org(Archives) (GMANE Archive) - IRC channel:
#wmii at irc.oftc.net(irc log)
Notes
If plan9port is found at runtime, wmii will use an
alternate controlling script, written in
rc. rc.wmii supports a
rc.wmii.local convention which allows you to keep local customisations
separate from the main script so you don't have to merge them every time
rc.wmii changes.
It is optional, the default wmiirc depends on only standard unix tools,
however - rc.wmii is better supported. All the code snippets/color schemes
on the site are written in rc and need some syntax adjustment to work in the
standard wmiirc.
Development
You can browse its source code repository or get a copy using Mercurial with following command:
hg clone http://code.suckless.org/hg/libixp
hg clone http://code.suckless.org/hg/wmii
Older releases
- wmii-3.6 (historical, 2007-11-16)
- wmii-3.5.1 (historical, 2006-12-27)
- wmii-3.1 (historical, 2006-06-17)
- 9base-2 (historical, 2006-01-25)
- wmii-2.5.2 (historical, 2006-01-27)
- wmii-2 (historical, 2005-10-21)
- wmi-10 (historical, 2004-10-03)
Make sure that the X Window System headers are installed, if you want to build wmii from source.
Packages
If there are no packages for your Linux distribution/OS yet, ask the appropriate maintainers to create one or compile wmii from source.
Debian
Official debian packages are available in the unstable and testing repository on debian.org. Backports for stable are available on backports.org. Prospective packages and/or snapshots can be downloaded from the maintainers website.
Source Mage
A Source Mage spell for the 20070516 wmii snapshot is available. As usual, just type
cast wmii
in a term to install it.
FreeBSD
Port is available at x11-wm/wmii.
NetBSD
A pkgsrc package for wmii is available in wm/wmii and wip/wmii-devel.
OpenBSD
wmii is included in the OpenBSD ports tree (x11/wmii), and binary packages are available from most OpenBSD mirrors.
Arch Linux
- wmii-3.6 is available in the Arch [extra] repository.
- wmii-hg is available in AUR [unsupported]. Building with
makepkgpulls the latest hg revision.
Gentoo
Ebuild is available at x11-wm/wmii.