Wmii

About
wmii (window manager improved 2) is a small and dynamic window manager which supports classic and tiling window management. It can easily be controlled by only the keyboard.

Usage
Usually the MOD-Key is, but it can be changed in the.

To start a program, press and a bar on the top will occur. Then type the name of the program followed by. Usually the first few characters will fit. Typing a partial command will result in the first match (sorted alphabetically) being highlighted, and a at this point will launch the highlighted program. Command-line arguments can be appended to any program directly from the menu simply by typing them:

You can switch between Clients in the current view by pressing (just like in vim). Clients can be moved around with.

Tags
Tags are Strings which group clients together. One Tag can have multiple Clients and one Client can have multiple Tags.

Tags 0-9 can be directly accessed via. With you can assign a Client to a number-Tag.

can be used to access all Views (even those with strings). Use to assign a Client a new Tag.

= Troubleshooting = If wmii refuses to pass keystrokes on to X clients applications (e.g. in gnome-terminal the cursor box flashes as you type but no characters appear), but wmii shortcuts still work (e.g. still opens a terminal,  still switches to view 2), be sure that your /etc/wmii-3.5/wmiirc does not contain any Key lines for keysyms that do not exist or are unassigned and does not contain multiple bindings for the same keysym. For example, the following will cause this problem if is unassigned:

Removing these two lines or running

will fix the problem. Substitute the ### with any number 8-255; find an empty keycode to use with

first.

Installing
If when installing you get a message telling you that this package is masked, just run: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge wmii

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