About:
PWM is a rather lightweight window manager that can have multiple client windows attached to a single frame. This feature helps keeping windows, especially the numerous xterms, organized.

Author:
tuomov [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.71/10.00 (14 votes)

Homepage:
http://iki.fi/tuomov/pwm/

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		X11 Applications
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: Artistic License, OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
[Topic]		Desktop Environment :: Window Managers

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	20030528	29-May-2003	Artistic License
PWM2 An Ion-based version.	2-20040207	07-Feb-2004	GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

 Comments

[»] Great Start
by StarFace - Feb 11th 2000 06:03:14

I am impressed with the minimal size, stability, and functionality of pwm! After searching windowmanagers for months, I must say this one is keeping me the most happy right now. It has what I want most: Mod1 clicking anywhere in the client to move and resize, full keyboard support, and multi-window grouping. Only one problem have I spotted so far, if you try to do too much editing in the pwm.conf file you can get kinda screwed up. window borders and deco go all black/white ect.

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[»] Re: Great Start
by Avi Y - Dec 3rd 2002 03:57:21

It's a shame that PWM's development was abandoned. I think that the new Ion is not as good as PWM. Today many of PWM's ideas are imlemented in new WM's, like fluxbox and pekwm. But the original one - could have been the best, if it was still under development + maintenance.... :(

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[»] Re: Great Start
by tuomov - Apr 28th 2003 08:20:27


> It's a shame that PWM's development was
> abandoned.
No, it was not abandoned. There hasn't been any new relases in quite a long time but lately there's been some work done on a new version. Have a look at the PWM web page for details.


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[»] Re: Great Start
by Avi Y - Sep 20th 2004 00:20:55

But, still PWM was truly lightweight, no dependencies, no nothing. ION depends on lua needs much more "configuration effort". PWM2 depends on ion - which makes it even more "complicated". What i had liked most on pwm was it's simplicity. PLEASE - make new releases of original PWM. (you can see it is still rather high rated on freshmeat...)

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