fawm
fawm is similar to a fawn. Both of them are small and light. But there is single difference. A fawn is a baby deer, but fawm is an window manager.
Screenshots
Features
- Popup menu
- Taskbar
- MIT Lisence
- (fawm is not a tiling window manager)
Requirements
- FreeBSD 10.3/amd64
Install
fawm needs Python 3.x to compile. You will get fawm/fawm
and
__fawm_config__/__fawm_config__
with the following command:
$ ./configure --prefix=${HOME}/.local && make
How to Use
.xinitrc
Write in your ~/.xinitrc
:
exec fawm
Popup Menu
Clicking the root window show you the popup menu. The popup menu appears by clicking the most left box of the taskbar.
You can define items of this menu in ~/.fawm.conf
(below).
Wallpaper
fawm cannot set a wallpaper. Please use xloadimage -onroot
.
~/.fawm.conf
fawm reads ~/.fawm.conf
at starting to define items of the popup menu.
Syntax of this file likes:
# A line starting with "#" is a comment. menu exec "Firefox" "firefox" exec "mlterm" "mlterm" : exec <caption> <command> : reload # reloads the configuration file. exit end
Known Bugs
- Close/maximize/minimize buttons have no image. They are only three dark boxes.
- Maximize button does not work.
Author
The author is Tomohiko Sumi.