BSD Ports

wm/w9wm 0.4.2nb1 NetBSD

8 1/2-like Window Manager for X with virtual desktops

System
NetBSD
Repository
pkgsrc
Categories
plan9, wm
Package size
27.6 KiB, 68.4 KiB installed

Description

w9wm Version 0.4.2 Copyright 2000-2001 Benjamin Drieu.

	     with large portions of code
	     Copyright 1994 David Hogan.

What is w9wm ?

w9wm is a quick & dirty hack based on 9wm, the wonderful "template" window manager made by David Hogan.

9wm is really nice for all day use (I mean, a large Emacs window covering the whole screen and a terminal to use Lynx and browse the web ;-)) provided that you do not have a large number of windows on your screen. But in some occasions it is not the case (ie. you have to telnet to 4-5 remote machines), which is painful with 9wm.

This need for virtual screens motivated this about 50 lines hack. w9wm brings support for virtual screens (provided you use the second button, aka middle button to select one virtual screen) as well as for key bindings (to switch from one window to another).

Install

Binary package:

pkgin install w9wm

From pkgsrc:

cd /usr/pkgsrc/wm/w9wm && make install clean

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

RepositoryVersion
NetBSD 10.1 x86_640.4.2nb1
NetBSD 10.1 aarch640.4.2nb1
SmartOS / illumos x86_640.4.2nb1
macOS 15 arm64-

Dependencies

No port depends on this one.