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arnault edited this page Mar 26, 2012 · 10 revisions

Welcome on the WMFS² Wiki

WMFS² is a lightweight and highly configurable tiling window manager for X written in C. wmfs² is a free software distributed under the BSD license. it can be drive from keyboard or mouse and it's configuration stands in one text file easily understandable. some of its core features include:

  • extendible application launcher with autocompletion (prompt).
  • built-in system tray.
  • Xinerama multi-head support.
  • extended window manager hints (EWMH) compliance.
  • editable rules for tags/clients.
  • complete mouse support.
  • on-the-fly configuration reloading.
  • dynamic tag creation/deletion.
  • statusbar with support for progressbar, color, images (imlib2) and status pipes.
  • manual layout: wmfs has no fixed layout, you can create/arrange layouts as you want/need.
  • tab, move and resize clients with direction.
  • themes support for statusbar and clients.
  • ”@include” support split configuration file.

installation

wmfs² can be installed in a variety of ways, depending on your GNU/Linux/BSD distribution. See the installation guide for detailed instructions.

configuration of wmfs

wmfs² is highly configurable by editing its main configuration file: wmfsrc.
complete list of available functions is available here.

statusbar configuration

how to display datas in the wmfs² statusbar.

tips

some examples to configure and use wmfs².

help and support

this wiki is a good place to find answers to common questions.
need more help ? the best way to get direct support is to join our IRC channel, #wmfs at irc.freenode.org. spoken languages include French, English and others. feel free to describe your problem in your native language and we’ll do our best to help.

contribute

you can contribute in many ways: you can report any issues on the bug tracker. If wmfs² is crashing, see debugging wmfs².
you can make preconfigured themes, icons pack, contribute for wiki in your native language, share your personal configs files or patches...

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