BSD Ports

x11/pwm 20070720 OpenBSD

lightweight window manager with emphasis on usability

System
OpenBSD
Repository
OpenBSD ports
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[email protected]>
Categories
x11

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.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
OpenBSDx11/pwm20070720
FreeBSDx11-wm/pwm2007.07.20_4
NetBSDwm/pwm20070720
DragonFlyx11-wm/pwm2007.07.20_4
HardenedBSDx11-wm/pwm2007.07.20_4
GhostBSDx11-wm/pwm2007.07.20_4

Install

Binary package:

pkg_add pwm

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/x11/pwm && make install

Dependencies

No port depends on this one.