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Bug#248048: ITP: wmi -- Window Manager Improved



Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : wmi
  Version         : 7
  Upstream Author : Anselm R. Garbe <anselmg@t-online.de>
* URL             : http://wmi.berlios.de/
* License         : MIT
  Description     : Window Manager Improved

 WMI is a new, minimalistic window manager for X11, which combines the best
 features of LarsWM, Ion, TrsWM, evilwm and ratpoison into one window manager.
 .
 WMI is highly customizable: it is designed with keyboard users in mind.
 Each action (e.g. resizing the frame, creating a new workspace,
 launching an app, note that WMI provides hundreds of actions) can be
 bind to a shortcut. So say good-bye to the rodent :)
 .
 WMI is the vim among the window managers: its main user interaction is
 oriented on the two modes of the famous vi editor - command mode and
 normal mode. In WMI the command mode is called input mode and supports
 the context-sensitive execution of actions. Outside this mode, only
 actions which are bind to a shortcut can be invoked.
 .
 WMI is flexible: it is able to arrange multiple clients in one frame in
 a maximized way, like Ion does, or to arrange them floating on a layer
 of the workspace. The track behavior of larswm can be emulated through
 using two or more frames in a neighbor arrangement.
 .
 WMI is simple to customize: there's no Lua bungling for customization
 of the WMI, like Ion or TrsWM does. Only simple property files, which
 are maintainable without the knowledge of yet another turing complete
 scripting language.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.18
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C



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