dwm

What dwm is

dwm is a free dynamic window manager for X on Linux. It arranges windows in tiled, monocle, or floating layouts, which users can change dynamically. Windows can have one or more tags, and selecting tags determines which windows are shown. Its status bar displays tags, the active layout, the visible-window count, the focused window title, and text read from the root window name property. Users configure dwm by editing config.h, a C header, and config.mk, a Make include file; settings include application placement, tags, and colours. The project describes dwm as a single binary, and some Linux distributions provide binary packages. It creates a view for each Xinerama screen. The project says it does not process input data unknown at compile time, apart from window titles and status text read from the root window name. dmenu is an optional companion for a wmii-like menu. The download listing identifies version 6.8 as 26kb, dated 2026-01-30. dwm is linked to the MIT/X Consortium license. Help is available through the FAQ, source code and config.h, IRC channel, and mailing list.