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herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X. It licensed under the "Simplified BSD License" (see link:LICENSE[LICENSE]).
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the layout is based on splitting frames into subframes which can be split again or can be filled with windows (similar to i3/ musca)
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tags (or workspaces or virtual desktops or …) can be added/removed at runtime. Each tag contains an own layout
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exactly one tag is viewed on each monitor. The tags are monitor independent (similar to xmonad)
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it is configured at runtime via ipc calls from herbstclient. So the configuration file is just a script which is run on startup. (similar to wmii/musca)
For more, see the http://herbstluftwm.org[herbstluftwm homepage] -- in
particular the http://herbstluftwm.org/tutorial.html[herbstluftwm tutorial]
for the first steps (also available as man herbstluftwm-tutorial
after
installing herbstluftwm on your system).
You are welcome to join the IRC channel #herbstluftwm
on irc.freenode.net
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Installation
If you want to build herbstluftwm from source, see the link:INSTALL[INSTALL] file.
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