window manager improved 2

wmii is a small, dynamic window manager for X11. It is scriptable, has a 9P filesystem interface and supports classic and tiling (acme-like) window management. It aims to maintain a small and clean (read hackable and beautiful) codebase.

Links

• Latest release: wmii-3.6 (Note that it requires dmenu and libixp-0.4, p9p recommended)
• Latest snapshot: wmii+ixp-20080520
• Latest devel tip: hg clone http://suckless.org/hg.rc/wmii
• Bugs: Google Code issue tracker
• Mailing List: wmii at suckless dot org (Archives) (GMANE Archive)
• Devel Mailing List: wmii-hackers at suckless dot org (Archives) (GMANE Archive)
• IRC channel: #wmii at irc.oftc.net (irc log)

Notes

If plan9port is found at runtime, wmii will use an alternate controlling script, written in rc. rc.wmii supports a rc.wmii.local convention which allows you to keep local customisations seperate from the main script so you don't have to merge them every time rc.wmii changes.

It is optional, the default wmiirc depends on only standard unix tools, however - rc.wmii is better supported. All the code snippets/color schemes on the site are written in rc and need some syntax adjustment to work in the standard wmiirc.

Development

You can browse its source code repository or get a copy using Mercurial with following command:

hg clone http://suckless.org/hg.rc/libixp
hg clone http://suckless.org/hg.rc/wmii

See the bugs page for instructions on how to repport bugs.