MIWM(1)

NAME
miwm - a minimal appearence, full-function window manager

SYNOPSIS
miwm

MIWM is Ben Wise's MInimal Window Manager. It is pronounced 'my whim'.

The goal of miwm is to be a fully functional window manager, while retaining a very spare (Zen or Spartan, as you please) appearance and command-set.

WARNING
This man page is VERY MUCH under construction. It is not complete, and blatantly contains leftover pieces of the man page I used as a template. Do not rely on anything you find here.

COMMANDS
The notation for describing commands is that B1-f means 'button 1 click on frame', cB3-r means 'control button 3 click on root',

B1-f
    Raise.

B2-f
    Move.

B3-f
    Hide.

Filenames passed to
    miwm can be directories or deleted files. If a directory that is not deleted is passed to miwm, then the deleted files or directories in it will be restored; if the recursive option is specified, then all deleted files or directories in any of its children will be restored as well.

The shell wildcards * and ?, as well as shell brace notation using [ and ], are interpreted correctly by miwm. It is possible to pass wildcards to the program without the wildcards being intercepted by the shell by setting noglob (in csh) or by quoting the wildcards. To delete a file that actually has a wildcard in its name, you must precede the quoted wildcard with a quoted backslash.

If no files are specified on the command line, miwm goes into interactive mode. In interactive mode, the user is prompted to enter files to be restored, one file per line. Typing a carriage return on an empty prompt line exits the program.

Wildcards and quoting backslashes can be entered directly at the prompt without any shell interference (which is the main reason there is an interactive mode).

OPTIONS
Miwm accepts no command-line options. But I include the following to demonstrat how to format things.

-r  If a specified file is a directory, the directory and all of its children are restored recursively.

-i  The user is prompted for confirmation before each file or directory is restored. This is not the same as the interactive file name entry mode which is automatically activated when no files are specified on the command line.

KNOWN BUGS
Too complicated

No icons.

SEE ALSO
9wm(1), aewm(1)

AUTHOR
Ben Paul Wise

RESTRICTIONS
Copyright (c) 1998-2003 by Ben Paul Wise. All rights reserved. MIWM(1) specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.