Abstract -------- window manager improved-improved is a dynamic window manager for X11. It supports classic and tiled window management with extended keyboard, mouse, and 9P-based [1] remote control. It consists of the wmii(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. xmessage and dmenu are used by the default scripts. libixp and dmenu can be obtained from http://suckless.org/. Either plan9port[2] or 9base is recommended. If you have the wmii+ixp distribution, libixp is already provided. Installation ------------ First, edit config.mk to match your local setup, or to let us guess it, run: make config To build, simply run: make To install, run the following, as root, if necessary: make install Running wmii ------------ Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start wmii using startx: until wmii; do true done In order to connect wmii to a specific display, make sure that the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly. For example: DISPLAY=:1 wmii This will start wmii on display :1. Configuration ------------- The configuration of wmii is done by customizing the rc script rc.wmii.local, which remotely controls the window manager and handles various events. The main rc.wmii script lives in PREFIX/etc/wmii@CONFPREFIX@/, while rc.wmii.local goes in $HOME/.wmii@CONFPREFIX@/. If you wish to unbind keys bound by rc.wmii in rc.wmii.local, you must do so inside the function Action-overridekeys. You may, however, define new keys or redefine keys anywhere. 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://9p.cat-v.org [2] http://plan9.us