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.. title: An Update to 'Window Managers?'
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.. slug: an-update-to-window-managers
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.. date: 2011/12/22 17:12:00
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.. tags: cli,software,windowmanager
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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
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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***EDIT 2016-11-30**: It seems the domain is no longer active.*
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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
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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. |