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Linux port of cwm (formerly known as calmwm) from OpenBSD's xenocara.

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cwm - chaos window manager

Linux port of cwm (formerly known was calmwm) from OpenBSD's xenocara.

Documentation and Bugs

Since this is just a build port of cwm for all information about cwm and it's configuration please refer to the excellent documentation provided by the man pages, here for cwm and here for cwmrc

However, all bugs/crashes/etc should be reported here as they could stem from differences caused by the porting effort.

Build and Install

cwm is heavy on the X11 dependencies, which are usually satisfied by the distributions X11 development packages.

x11 xcb xrender xft xau xdmcp xinerama xrandr xext freetype2 fontconfig

Building should be as simple as (please report any failure after having satisfied the library / package dependencies):

$ make
...
$ sudo make PREFIX=/usr install
install -m 0755 cwm  /usr/bin/cwm

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