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wmii

wmii is a small, dynamic window manager for X11.

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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.

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wmii was added by 6pi in Apr 2011 and the latest update was made in Oct 2019. The list of alternatives was updated Jul 2019. It's possible to update the information on wmii or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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