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Abstract
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window manager improved 2 (wmii) [1] is an improved, modularized and
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lightweight X11 window manager which supports tabbed, tiled and
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conventional window management through layouts.
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wmii consists of components that are independent processes and
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communicate via a socket-based virtual filesystem which is oriented
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on the "everything is file" paradigm of the Plan 9 [2] operating system.
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The core distribution of wmii contains the window manager itself,
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a master file system routing utility (wmiifs), a generic bar (wmiibar),
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a shortcut handler (wmiikeys), and a generic interaction menu (wmiimenu)
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beside several tiny utilities like wmiir, wmiiplumb, and wmiiwarp.
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Requirements
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In order to build wmii you need the Xlib header files.
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Furthermore, the wmii configuration scripts rely on the 9base package [3]
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which contains ports of various Plan 9 standard tools, in particular the
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rc shell.
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Installation
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Edit config.mk to match your local setup. wmii is installed into
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the /usr/local hierarchy by default.
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Afterwards enter the following command to build and install wmii (if
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necessary as root):
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$ 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:
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exec wmii
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In order to connect wmii or wmiir to a specific display, make sure that
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DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
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$ setenv DISPLAY foo.bar:1
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$ wmii
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This will start wmii on display :1 of the host foo.bar if it is present
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in your .xinitrc.
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Configuration
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The configuration of wmii is done by customizing the existing actions.
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Customizing an action means copying the appropriate file from the directory
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$WMII_CONFDIR (usually /usr/local/etc/wmii-3) to
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$HOME/.wmii-3 and editing it to fit your needs. The action of main
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interest is called 'wmiirc': it is executed on startup.
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Credits
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-------
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Beside all thanks to the wmi contributors, the following people have
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contributed especially to wmii in various ways:
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- Christoph Wegscheider <christoph (dot) wegscheider (at) wegi (dot) net>
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- Georg Neis <gn (at) oglaroon (dot) de>
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- Uwe Zeisberger <zeisberg (at) informatik (dot) uni-freiburg (dot) de>
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- Uriel <uriell (at) binarydream (dot) org>
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- Scot Doyle <scot (at) scotdoyle (dot) com>
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- Sebastian Hartmann <seb (dot) wmi (at) gmx (dot) de>
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- Bernhard Leiner <bleiner (at) gmail (dot) com>
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- Jonas Domeij <jonas (dot) domeij (at) gmail (dot) com>
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- Vincent <10 (dot) 50 (at) free (dot) fr>
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- Oliver Kopp <olly (at) flupp (dot) de>
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- Sebastian Roth <sebastian (dot) roth (at) gmail (dot) com>
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- Steve Hoffman <steveh (at) g2switchworks (dot) com>
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- Christof Musik <christof (at) senfdax (dot) de>
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- Steffen Liebergeld <perl (at) gmx (dot) org>
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References
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[1] http://wmii.de
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[2] http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/
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[3] http://wmii.de/repos/9base/
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--Anselm R. Garbe
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