Guide to X11/Window Managers/w9wm
- Type: Stacking
- Language: C
- Licence: 9wm
Features
[edit | edit source]Features of the *w9wm* window manager are:
- Uses the xlib toolkit
- Useless windowborders do not provide windowmotion
- A rightclick on the desktop gives a contextmenu that provides windowmotion and facility to launch a terminal emulator
- No menubar
- No titlebars
- Multiple desktop facilities
- No maximize facility
- No desktop shortcuts
- No desktop wallpaper
- No theme support
- No xkeys support
- A three-button mouse is required
- Uses a clickfocus model
- No additional taskswitching facility
- Applications launched via a terminal only
- Has a limit of to 32 hidden windows
- Lightweight - Has few dependencies and rated as a pinhammer on the hammer scale
- Supports focusstealing by failing the launch test, giving focus to window placement facility
- Not accessibility friendly - utilizes middleclick, rightclick and has no keyboard equivalents for some operations and provides support for focusstealing
Resizing Windows
[edit | edit source]The w9wm window manager does not provide the facility to maximize a window: windowmotion is provided via a rightlick context menu: To resize a window, rightclick desktop or window border, reshape, rightclick: border, rightclick a corner position, drag to size.
Where is w9wm on the hammer scale?
[edit | edit source]Review
[edit | edit source]Operation
[edit | edit source]The w9wm window manager is awkward to use because every new window has to be swept out before it can appear on the desktop and it is necessary to access a context menu on the desktop to move or resize windows. There is no facility to maximize windows.
Accessibility
[edit | edit source]9wm is not accessibility friendly because it requires a multibutton mouse and there is no keyboard equivalents for some operations. The following [accessibility] restrictions apply to this window manager:
- Requires a multi-button mouse
- Requires middleclick functionality for some operations
- Requires rightclick functionality for some operations
- Has no keyboard equivalents for some operations
Dependencies
[edit | edit source]9wm is dependent on the following xlib libraries:
- libx11-6
- libxext6
Resources used
[edit | edit source]VIRT | RES | SHR | %CPU | %MEM |
2736 | 1240 | 2532 | 0.0 | 0.2 |