BSD Ports

x11-wm/pwm 2007.07.20_4 DragonFly

Lightweight window manager with emphasis on usability

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
Categories
x11-wm
Package size
68.3 KiB, 166.6 KiB installed

Description

PWM is a rather lightweight window manager for X11. It has the unique feature that multiple client windows can be attached to the same frame. This feature helps keeping windows, especially the numerous xterms, organized.

Being a lightweight window manager with emphasis on usability, PWM does not have all the features that one might expect from a window manager. Those features are simply unnecessary. PWM does not provide pixmapped themes or other bloated eye candies but has a clean and simple look inspired by BeOS and Motif. There are no icons and frames cannot be iconified, only "shaded". Only One True (pointer) focus mode is supported: sloppy. PWM does not even have titlebar buttons and may not be the easiest window manager to get into, most Good Things are not.

PWM does have workspaces, menus and Window Maker dockapp support. It has pretty good keyboard support and almost all the functionality is configurable.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 20070720, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
DragonFlyx11-wm/pwm2007.07.20_4none known-[email protected]-
FreeBSDx11-wm/pwm2007.07.20_4none known-[email protected]-
OpenBSDx11/pwm by name20070720 newestno data-The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[email protected]>-
NetBSDwm/pwm by name20070720 newestnone known-[email protected]-
HardenedBSDx11-wm/pwm2007.07.20_4no data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDx11-wm/pwm2007.07.20_4no data-[email protected]-

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Install

Binary package:

pkg install pwm

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/x11-wm/pwm && make install clean

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

Dependencies

Run dependencies 1

No port depends on this one.