Window Manager From Scratch Wiki

Wmfs is a lightweight and highly configurable tiling window manager for X

Installing it !

From scratch (git repo)

This is the recommended installation process. Wmfs is still younger, so the code change every day and any package/build is often obsolete.

To install WMFS, you need to satisfy some dependencies: CMake>=2.6, Freetype, Xlib, Xft. (And, optionally, Doxygen, Xrandr, Xinerama ...), you also need git to clone the source code.

git clone git://git.wmfs.info/wmfs.git
mkdir wmfs/__build__
cd wmfs/__build__
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

Then start wmfs as you can or via ~/.xinitrc and startx

echo "exec wmfs" >> ~/.xinitrc
startx

On FreeBSD

There is a port on x11-wm/wmfs that you can install with

make -C /usr/ports/x11-wm/wmfs install

Warning : This port is an old version of wmfs... Bug reports for this version will be ignored. You're encouraged to use the git version.

On archlinux

Wmfs is avaliable on AUR please find procedure to install wmfs here (english)

On Debian/Ubuntu like

sudo apt-get install cmake libfreetype6-dev libx11-dev libxinerama-dev libxrandr-dev libxft-dev git-core
git clone git://git.wmfs.info/wmfs.git
mkdir wmfs/__build__ && cd wmfs/__build__
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

See also http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/wmfs (in french).

Customize it!

Find help and report issue

You can find help on IRC server irc.freenode.org chan #wmfs . Spoken languages are French, English and many others. Feel free to expose your problem in your own language :-) .

You can report any issue on the bug tracker.

FrontPage (last edited 2010-01-25 12:58:56 by ksh)