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+date = "2011-12-22T17:12:00-07:00"
+title = "An Update to 'Window Managers?'"
+slug = "an-update-to-window-managers"
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+Way back, I wrote a quick blurb on [Window Managers](links://slug/window-managers) for running under X.
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+Well,  a while back I switched to [Ubuntu](http://www.ubuntu.com) for my OS of choice.  As you may know, the fine folks at Ubuntu switched to default window manager to something called **Unity**, which caused a stir.  I tried it for a while, but decided that it was too heavy, and too mouse-centric.
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+So, what to do? Well, I went back to my old standby [wmfs](http://wmfs.info), Window Manager From Scratch. This is a modern WM with systray support, full Ximirama and Xrandr support, tiles, and is mainly driven from the keyboard. Life is good.
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+To install (same steps as for Fedora, RHEL, or Ubuntu), download the source, and install the needed development libraries for: **X11, Xft, freetype, Xinerama, Xrandr, and Imlib2**. I used the native packages from the OS. Then, simple do a
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+	make
+	sudo make install
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+(you do build software as a normal user, right?)
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+This will install all the needed bits and configs into the correct place. Under Ubuntu 11.10, there was an entry from the login screen to let me chose wmfs.
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+Config is handled in *$HOME/.config/wmfs/wmfsrc* which you can copy from */etc/xdg/wmfs/wmfsrc*.
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+***EDIT 2016-11-30**: It seems the domain is no longer active.*
+The [wmfs website](http://wmfs.info) has very nice documentation as well as likes to some people’s configs with screen shots.
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+It runs very fast, and very lean:
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+	 Private  +   Shared  =  RAM used       Program
+	  3.9 MiB + 310.0 KiB =   4.2 MiB       wmfs
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+Check it out, I am sure you will like what you see.