Abstract -------- 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 and the wmiir(1) the remote access utility. Requirements ------------ In order to build wmii you need the Xlib header files and libixp. Further dependencies are xmessage and dmenu. libixp and dmenu can be obtained from [1]. Installation ------------ Edit config.mk to match your local setup. wmii is installed into the /usr/local hierarchy by default. Afterwards enter the following command to build and install wmii (if necessary as root): make clean install Running wmii ------------ 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.: DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec wmii This will start wmii on display :1 of the host foo.bar. Configuration ------------- 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-3.5/ (usually /usr/local/etc/wmii-3.5/) to $HOME/.wmii-3.5/ and edit it to fit your needs. Credits ------- The following people have contributed especially to wmii in various ways: - Christoph Wegscheider - Georg Neis - Uwe Zeisberger - Uriel - Scot Doyle - Sebastian Hartmann - Bernhard Leiner - Jonas Domeij - Vincent <10 dot 50 at free dot fr> - Oliver Kopp - Sebastian Roth - Nico Golde - Steve Hoffman - Christof Musik - Steffen Liebergeld - Tobias Walkowiak - Sander van Dijk - Salvador Peiro - Anthony Martin - Icarus Sparry - Norman Golisz - Stefano K. Lee - Stefan Tibus - Neptun - Daniel Wäber <_wabu at web dot de> References ---------- [1] http://suckless.org [2] http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/sys/man/5/INDEX.html