Awesome (window manager)
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 awesome with a number of terminals open |
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| Design by | Julien Danjou |
| Latest release | 2.3.1 / June 2, 2008 |
| Written in | C |
| OS | Unix-like |
| Genre | Window Manager |
| License | GNU General Public License[1] |
| Website | http://awesome.naquadah.org |
awesome is a dynamic window manager for the X Window System. Its development began in September 2007 as a fork of dwm. It aims at being extremely small and fast and supports multiple layouts such as floating, tiling, and maximized. Like many others tiling window managers, it strives to make it possible for the user to productively manage windows without the use of the mouse.
awesome is distributed on a wide range of Unix-like operating systems, including Arch Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.
The upcoming 3.0 version will be the first version using the XCB library to communicate with the X server, thus making awesome the first window manager to be using this library instead of Xlib. It'll also support the pango markup language, and D-Bus for communication.
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[edit] Features
- Multiple and per screen statusbars, including a variety of widgets (text and icon boxes, graphs, progress bars, and so on).
- Zero mouse dependency. Keyboard accelerated desktop environment.
- Multihead support (XRandR, Xinerama or Zaphod mode).
- EWMH support.
- Real transparency support (using Composite extension and xcompmgr).
- Customized entirely through editing a configuration file.
- Each function for manipulating the environment is bindable to keys/ mouse buttons and executable remotely via a socket (awesome-client).
[edit] Licensing
awesome is free software licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2. It is available free of cost at the official website.
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