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JWM

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JWM (Joe's Window Manager) is an extremely lightweight window manager for the X window system. Its installed size is less than 1.15 MB, regardless of the enabled USE flags.

Installation

USE flags

USE flags for x11-wm/jwm Very fast and lightweight still powerful window manager for X

debug Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces
iconv Enable support for the iconv character set conversion library
jpeg Add JPEG image support
nls Add Native Language Support (using gettext - GNU locale utilities)
pango Bidirectional text layout support with pango using xft backend.
png Add support for libpng (PNG images)
svg Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
truetype Add support for FreeType and/or FreeType2 fonts
xinerama Add support for querying multi-monitor screen geometry through the Xinerama API
xpm Add support for XPM graphics format

Emerge

root #emerge --ask x11-wm/jwm

Configuration

Files

Configuration files are in XML format.

  • /etc/system.jwmrc - Global (system wide) configuration file.
  • ~/.jwmrc - Local (per user) configuration file.

Additional information on configuring JWM can be found in the /usr/share/doc/jwm-2.3.6/ directory.

Usage

Invocation

user $jwm -h

Removal

Unmerge

root #emerge --ask --depclean x11-wm/jwm

See also

  • i3 — a minimalist window manager, focusing on keyboard commands to manipulate windows.