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pwm-20070720

lightweight window manager with emphasis on usability

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Description

PWM is a lightweight window manager for X11 with emphasis on usability. It was the first window manager to implement "tabbed frames". This feature helps keeping windows, especially the numerous xterms, organized. PWM has a clean and simple look inspired by BeOS and Motif. It does have workspaces, menus and Window Maker dockapp support as well as good keyboard support and almost all the functionality is configurable. It does not have all the features (such as pixmapped themes, icons, iconified windows or titlebar buttons) that one might expect from a typical window manager and may not be the easiest one to get into.

Package information

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

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Direct dependencies

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