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Dwm

dynamic tiling window manager for X11
Thing tiling_window_manager Q284200

Facts

12 properties
Instance of
tiling window manager, Dynamic window manager, free software[2][3]
Inception
July 14, 2006[18]
Official website
dwm.suckless.org[19]
Has use
window manager[17]
Build system
make[22]
Copyright license
MIT License[5]
Copyright status
copyrighted[21]
Developer
suckless.org[4]
Different from
Desktop Window Manager[20]
Operating system
Unix-like operating system[7]
Programmed in
C[6]
Software version identifier
6.8 (6–6.8, n=9)[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]
🏷️ Also known as
ar دي دبليو إم ar مدير النوافذ الحركي de Dwm de Dynamic window manager
🔖 Identifiers · 22
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Dwm-shot.png ↗
AUR package
dwm, dwm-pango, dwm-git, dwm-keycodes
Alpine Linux package
dwm
AlternativeTo software ID
dwm
ArchWiki article
Dwm
Debian stable package
dwm
Fedora package
dwm
Free Software Directory entry
dwm
FreeBSD port
x11-wm/dwm
Freebase ID
/m/0h4kqk
Gentoo Wiki article
Dwm, Dwm/de, Dwm/it, Dwm/hu, Dwm/fa, Dwm/ja
Gentoo package
x11-wm/dwm
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Homebrew formula name
dwm
Mageia package
dwm
Mailing list archive URL
lists.suckless.org
NetBSD package ID
wm/dwm
Open Hub ID
dwm
OpenBSD port
x11/dwm
Pro-Linux.de DBApp ID
9783
Repology project name
dwm
Source code repository URL
git.suckless.org, git://git.suckless.org/dwm
Ubuntu package
dwm
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Summary

Dwm is a tiling window manager[1].

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Open Hub. Retrieved . openhub.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Open Hub. Retrieved . openhub.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . git.suckless.org. git.suckless.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . git.suckless.org. git.suckless.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . git.suckless.org. git.suckless.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . git.suckless.org. git.suckless.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . git.suckless.org. git.suckless.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . git.suckless.org. git.suckless.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . git.suckless.org. git.suckless.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . git.suckless.org. git.suckless.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 13d ago · Mykhal · 2026-10-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 22
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'br', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'n
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Source code repository URL: http://git.suckless.org/dwm"
  2. 5w ago · Spiral6800 · 2026-09-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Source code repository URL → http://git.suckless.org/dwm, git://git.suckless.org/dwm
    Fedora package → dwm
    Open Hub ID → dwm
    Pro-Linux.de DBApp ID → 9783
    + 34 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Alpine Linux package: dwm, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/324953767|dwm (#324953767)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8507|Alpine Linux package]] #mix'n'"
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