wmii is a small, dynamic window manager for X11. It is scriptable, has a 9p filesystem interface and supports classic and tiling (acme-like) window management. It aims to maintain a small and clean (read hackable and beautiful) codebase.
Links
- Latest release: wmii 3.9.2 (recommended)
- Latest devel tip:
hg clone http://hg.suckless.org/wmii - Bugs: Google Code issue tracker
- Mailing List:
dev+subscribe@suckless.org(Archives) (Old Archives) (see community for details)
Development
You can browse its source code repository or get a copy using Mercurial with following command:
hg clone http://hg.suckless.org/libixp
hg clone http://hg.suckless.org/wmii
Older releases
- wmii-3.6 (historical, 2007-11-16)
- wmii-3.5.1 (historical, 2006-12-27)
- wmii-3.1 (historical, 2006-06-17)
- wmii-2.5.2 (historical, 2006-01-27)
- wmii-2 (historical, 2005-10-21)
Make sure that the X Window System headers are installed if you want to build wmii from source.
Packages
If there are no packages for your Linux distribution/OS yet, ask the appropriate maintainers to create one or compile wmii from source.
Debian
Official debian packages are available in the unstable and testing repository on debian.org. Backports for stable are available on backports.org. Prospective packages and/or snapshots can be downloaded from the maintainers website. There is also a user-supplied apt repository at dpkg.org.
wmii also comes with debian packaging materials. To build a deb, type:
make deb-dep # Installs any missing build dependencies.
make deb # Builds a deb
See also Ubuntu, below.
Ubuntu
Official ubuntu packages are available in the universe repository. Up-to-date snapshots are also available in the wmii Launchpad PPA. These packages may also work on debian systems. To build your own deb, see Debian above.
Arch Linux
- wmii-3.6 is available in the Arch [extra] repository.
- wmii-hg is available in AUR [unsupported]. Building with
makepkgpulls the latest hg revision.
It is also possible to build an Arch package by simply running makepkg from the base of the wmii source tree.
For up-do-date packages, you can add the suckless repo to
/etc/pacman.conf:
[suckless]
Server = http://dl.suckless.org/arch/$arch
Gentoo
Ebuild is available at x11-wm/wmii.
Source Mage
A Source Mage spell for the 20070516 wmii snapshot is available. As usual, just type
cast wmii
in a term to install it.
FreeBSD
Port is available at x11-wm/wmii.
NetBSD
A pkgsrc package for wmii is available in wm/wmii and wip/wmii-devel.
OpenBSD
wmii is included in the OpenBSD ports tree (x11/wmii), and binary packages are available from most OpenBSD mirrors.