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The Tiny Window Manager
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latest versionLicense 20070418 1.3-4 Debian testing package 20050309 1.3 20050309 public domain - Miscellaneous Details
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awarenessTaskbar 252 752 2552 N N N N N Written in C (~50 lines). Also available in the source package in Python. The documentation includes a pointer to someone else's version in Lisp. You can move and resize windows - any other WM feature you can think of ... well, it's not here.
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Usage: Focus follows pointer. Alt+Button1, drag: interactive window move Alt+Button3, drag: interactive window resize Alt+F1: raise focused window
That's the entire documentation as it relates to functionality of the window manager. I'm not joking - that's all you get. Because that's all there is.
- Window Decorations
- Windows have a 1px border.
- Themes
- No themes.
- Discussion
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The author decided to try to cut down the size of failsafewm and ended up rewriting it from scratch. This is the product. He meant it both as a demonstration and as a WM for embedded systems or the like where a very small memory footprint is needed.
As noted above, the documentation is miniscule - but it covers pretty much everything. I found some quirks: with the GIMP controls open I was unable to return focus to aterm - but if I had an image open as well, I could. Normal behaviour is sliding focus. No icons, no minimization, no taskbar, no nothing. The Debian package supplies only the compiled C version of the WM - which weighs in at an amazing 4212 bytes. I didn't try the Python version.
It works. I imagine it's interesting from an academic point of view and probably useful as a code base for further work, but I wouldn't recommend this as your day-to-day WM.