What's that all about ?
Wumwum is a window manager manager. It manages window managers so that they place your windows automatically the way a tile-based window manager (ion or awesome) would do it. This way you get the nice graphics of modern window managers and the efficiency of keyboard driven tiling-based managers. Moreover you can still use all features of the underlying manager and you keep all your keyboard shortcuts and behaviour when switching from one manager to the other. This video gives a quick overview of wumwum's features.Wumwum 0.5 is out! You can get the changelog here. This release is mainly a maintenance release
FAQ
- Hey it's done in perl !
yeah that's because of your next question - Hey it's done in
4006007501000 lines of perl !
you see ? - How does that work ?
you heard of ewmh and wmctrl right ? - Is it fast ?
why not see the (old)video ? - Does it work with all window managers ?
no, see the status page - Where is the config file ?
there is no config file as of now. You need to edit the script. - Do I need to install something ?
yes. you need wmctrl, xprop and osd_cat. Additionally you need the perl modules X11::Protocol and X11::Keyboard. - Does it work with multihead ?
- Where do I get it ?
No. I think this feature could be easily added but I don't have a multihead setup to test it myself.
You can go back at the main project page. Archlinux users can find wumwum in the Arch User Repository.