treewm - X11 window manager

Description

treewm is feature-rich, flexible and provides a powerful concept. However, treewm's look is is rather pouristic, and its feel is not always intuitive. But with a bit of practise it should be very effective to use.

Short Feature List (some of them are quite unique among window managers):

• treewm allows to create desktops and to arbitrarly move windows between desktops.
• Many options (such as sticky, autoresize, always on top, or the focus or raise policy) can be set for any desktop or window (useful option management that uses the tree stucture).
• treewm can be fully customized using the config file
• treewm has a very powerful (somewhat vi-like) command mode, and can be controlled from shell scripts via a fifo.
• icons can be placed on desktops that can execute arbitrary commands.
• treewm only uses very common libraries, in particular it doesn't require gtk, qt or anything like that.

treewm is still under development, here is a short TODO:

• Improve many details
• Write a good config file editor
• Improve documentation

News

(13.09.2003) Treewm 0.4.4 is out.
It's been a while since I've published 0.4.2 and I thought it was time to release the bugfixes and small improvements I've done since March 2002 (!!!). I left out 0.4.3 because there was some inofficial release (see links). Thanks to Rudi for bugfixes, the FreeBSD port and for the inofficial release I was too lazy to finish. Also, thanks to lordvan for including treewm into the gentoo portage tree. And finally, thanks to Neil Young for the amazing music I listened to while working on treewm.

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a (more or less) typical situation		simultaneous input into multiple xterms		treewm supports japanese characters

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