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Abstract
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window manager improved 2 is a dynamic window manager for X11.
It supports classic and tiled window management with extended
keyboard, mouse, and 9P-based [2] remote control.
It consists of the wmiiwm(1) window manager, the wmiir(1)
remote access utility, and a tiny wmiimenu(1).
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Requirements
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In order to build wmii you need the Xlib header files.
Installation
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Edit config.mk to match your local setup. wmii is installed into
the /usr/local hierarchy by default. If your system is Mac OS X,
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then remove the '-static' flag in cmd/Makefile. If your system is
Solaris, grep recursively for 'Solaris' and uncomment all occurences
to make wmii compile or ask Sun to make their system POSIX compliant.
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Afterwards enter the following command to build and install wmii (if
necessary as root):
make clean install
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Running wmii
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Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start wmii using startx:
exec wmii
In order to connect wmii or wmiir to a specific display, make sure that
the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
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DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec wmii
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This will start wmii on display :1 of the host foo.bar.
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Configuration
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The configuration of wmii is done by customizing the sh script wmiirc,
which remotely controls the window manager and handles various events.
Copy the file from PREFIX/etc/wmii-3/ (usually /usr/local/etc/wmii-3/)
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to $HOME/.wmii-3/ and edit it to fit your needs.
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Credits
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The following people have contributed especially to wmii in various ways:
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- Christoph Wegscheider <christoph dot wegscheider at wegi dot net>
- Georg Neis <gn at wmii dot de>
- Uwe Zeisberger <zeisberg at informatik dot uni-freiburg dot de>
- Uriel <uriel at wmii dot de>
- Scot Doyle <scot at scotdoyle dot com>
- Sebastian Hartmann <seb dot wmi at gmx dot de>
- Bernhard Leiner <bleiner at gmail dot com>
- Jonas Domeij <jonas dot domeij at gmail dot com>
- Vincent <10 dot 50 at free dot fr>
- Oliver Kopp <olly at flupp dot de>
- Sebastian Roth <sebastian dot roth at gmail dot com>
- Steve Hoffman <steveh at g2switchworks dot com>
- Christof Musik <christof at senfdax dot de>
- Steffen Liebergeld <perl at gmx dot org>
- Tobias Walkowiak <wal at ivu dot de>
- Sander van Dijk <a dot h dot vandijk at gmail dot com>
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References
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[1] http://wmii.de
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[2] http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/sys/man/5/INDEX.html