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| It is very fast, extensible and licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license. | It is very fast, extensible and licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license. | ||
| - | It is primarly | + | It is primarily |
| everyday computing tasks and who want to have fine-grained control of their | everyday computing tasks and who want to have fine-grained control of their | ||
| graphical environment. | graphical environment. | ||
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| that has influenced the development of several other X window managers, including xmonad and awesome. | that has influenced the development of several other X window managers, including xmonad and awesome. | ||
| It is externally similar to wmii, but internally much simpler. | It is externally similar to wmii, but internally much simpler. | ||
| - | Dwm is written purely in C for performance and security in addition to simplicity, and lacks any | + | Dwm is written purely in C for performance and security in addition to simplicity and lacks any |
| configuration interface besides editing the source code. | configuration interface besides editing the source code. | ||
| - | One of the project' | + | One of the project' |
| and options meant to be user-configurable are all contained in a single header file. | and options meant to be user-configurable are all contained in a single header file. | ||
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| Fluxbox is a windowmanager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. | Fluxbox is a windowmanager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. | ||
| It is very light on resources and easy to handle but yet full of features to make an easy, | It is very light on resources and easy to handle but yet full of features to make an easy, | ||
| - | and extremely fast, desktop experience. | + | and extremely fast desktop experience. |
| It is built using C++ and licensed under the MIT-License. | It is built using C++ and licensed under the MIT-License. | ||
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| but has since evolved enough that it no longer resembles aewm++ at all. | but has since evolved enough that it no longer resembles aewm++ at all. | ||
| It also has an expanded feature-set, | It also has an expanded feature-set, | ||
| - | auto properties, Xinerama support and keygrabber that supports keychains, and much more. | + | auto properties, Xinerama support and keygrabber that supports keychains and much more. |
| See also [[https:// | See also [[https:// | ||