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awesome-4.3p3

highly configurable framework window manager

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Description

awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast, small, dynamic and it's heavily extensible using the Lua programming language. It is primarily targeted at power users, developers and anyone who wants to have fine grained control over his graphical environment.

Package information

Ports path
x11/awesome
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
x11, lang/lua
Available flavors
None listed

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