dwm: A Minimalist Tiling Window Manager For Linux | Linux Today

dwm: A Minimalist Tiling Window Manager For Linux

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Casey Houser
Apr 3, 2018

Tiling window managers have several advantages over Gnome and KDE. If you’re looking for a bare-bones experience or a foil to your current desktop environment, find out how dwm can offer exactly that.

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Casey Houser

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