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wmii is a dynamic tiling
Tiling window manager

In computing, a tiling window manager is a window manager with an organization of the screen into mutually non-overlapping frames, as opposed to the more popular approach of coordinate-based stacking of overlapping objects that tries to fully emulate the desktop metaphor....
 window manager
Window manager

A window manager is computer software that controls the placement and appearance of window within a windowing system in a graphical user interface....
 for X11. It supports classic and dynamic window management with extended keyboard, mouse, and filesystem based remote control. It replaces the workspace paradigm with a new tagging approach.

In its default configuration, wmii's interface is similar to that of the Vi
Vi

vi is a family of screen-oriented text editors which share common characteristics, such as methods of invocation from the operating system command interpreter, and characteristic user interface features....
 text editor; the windows are controlled with Alt+H,J,K,L and can be combined with Alt+Shift+H,J,K,L.






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wmii is a dynamic tiling
Tiling window manager

In computing, a tiling window manager is a window manager with an organization of the screen into mutually non-overlapping frames, as opposed to the more popular approach of coordinate-based stacking of overlapping objects that tries to fully emulate the desktop metaphor....
 window manager
Window manager

A window manager is computer software that controls the placement and appearance of window within a windowing system in a graphical user interface....
 for X11. It supports classic and dynamic window management with extended keyboard, mouse, and filesystem based remote control. It replaces the workspace paradigm with a new tagging approach.

In its default configuration, wmii's interface is similar to that of the Vi
Vi

vi is a family of screen-oriented text editors which share common characteristics, such as methods of invocation from the operating system command interpreter, and characteristic user interface features....
 text editor; the windows are controlled with Alt+H,J,K,L and can be combined with Alt+Shift+H,J,K,L. This enables to build dynamic layouts easily in contrast to other window managers with fix layouts such as Ion. However, the window manager offers extensive configuration through a virtual filesystem similar to that offered by Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Plan 9 from Bell Labs

Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a distributed operating system, primarily used for research. It was developed as the research successor to Unix by the Computing Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs between the mid-1980s and 2002....
. Every window, tag, and column is represented in the virtual filesystem, and windows are controlled by manipulating their file objects (in fact, the configuration file is just a script interfacing the virtual files). If plan9port is found in the user's machine, wmii can be configured directly using the plan9port tools and the rc
RC

RC, rc or R/C can mean:*Sanskrit ?c "verse"In computing:* a filename extension for configuration files in UNIX-like environments, abbreviating "Run Commands"...
 scripting language; otherwise, wmii can be scripted via the wmiir utility, which interfaces with the aforementioned virtual filesystem.

Like the similar dwm
DWM

The acronym DWM can stand for:*Desktop Window Manager - A compositing window manager included with Microsoft Windows*Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken...
, wmii is initially configured to use dmenu
Dmenu

dmenu is a keyboard-driven menu utility developed as part of the dwm project. When invoked, usually by a user-configurable key combination, dmenu displays a horizontal menu of its stdin stream at the top edge of the screen....
 for program launching, and supports quick access to custom scripts located in a subdirectory of the user's home directory.

In the current development version (hg-tip), wmii supports Xinerama.

See also

Similar window managers:
  • dwm
    DWM

    The acronym DWM can stand for:*Desktop Window Manager - A compositing window manager included with Microsoft Windows*Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken...
     - An alternate wm by the same author as wmii
  • Awesome
    Awesome (window manager)

    awesome is a dynamic window manager for the X Window System. Its development began in September 2007 as a fork of dwm. It aims at being extremely small and fast and supports multiple layouts such as floating, Tiling window manager, and maximized....
  • Ion
  • ratpoison
    Ratpoison

    In Unix computing, ratpoison is a Free software window manager for the X Window System primarily written by Shawn Betts. Its user interface and much of its functionality are inspired by the GNU Screen computer terminal multiplexer....
  • stumpwm
    Stumpwm

    StumpWM is a tiling window manager for POSIX-compliant Unix-like operating systems running the X Window System. It started as a rewrite of the ratpoison window manager....
     - The successor to ratpoison
  • rio
    Rio (program)

    rio is Plan 9 from Bell Labs's windowing system.Many of its features embody key Plan 9 design concepts:* Each Window runs in its own private namespace ....
     - Plan 9 from Bell Labs
    Plan 9 from Bell Labs

    Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a distributed operating system, primarily used for research. It was developed as the research successor to Unix by the Computing Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs between the mid-1980s and 2002....
    ' window manager
  • Xmonad
    Xmonad

    xmonad is a tiling window manager for the X Window System, written in the Functional programming Haskell .Begun in March 2007, it is similar to dwm, larswm, Stumpwm and other members of the tiling window manager family, in that it strives to make it possible for the user to productively manage windows without the use of the Mouse ....


Related software:
  • 9P
    9P

    9P , is a network protocol developed for the Plan 9 from Bell Labs distributed operating systemas the means of connecting the components of a Plan 9 system....
     - the filesystem protocol used to implement wmii's virtual filesystem
  • Plan 9 from User Space
    Plan 9 from User Space

    Plan 9 from User Space is a Porting of many Plan 9 from Bell Labs libraries and applications to Unix-like operating systems. Currently it has been tested on a variety of operating systems including: Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris /SunOS....
     (aka plan9port)
  • ii
    Ii (IRC Client)

    ii is a FIFO and filesystem-based IRC client created by the wmii development team. It creates an IRC directory tree with server, channel and nick name directories....
     - an IRC client from the same developer


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