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echinus-0.4.9

simple, lightweight tiling and floating window manager

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Description

Echinus supports managing window in floating, tiled and maximized layouts. All the configuration is made via config file in Xresources format. Echinus supports a small subset of EWMH to be compatible with external panels and pagers. The goal of development is a small, fast window manager without features not strictly related to window management.

Package information

Ports path
x11/echinus
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Alexander Polakov <polachok@gmail.com>
Categories
x11
Available flavors
None listed

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