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Herbstluftwm
Jul 20, 2023
Manual tiling window manager for X11
herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib. Its main features can be described with
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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 or musca
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Tags or workspaces, or virtual desktops 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 or musca
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