cwm – a lightweight and efficient window manager for X11

This is an opinionated port and fork of OpenBSD's cwm window manager to Linux. Unnecessary or obscure features have been removed whilst a few bugs have been patched. Future upstream fixes will be included.

See cwm(1) and cwmrc(5).

Removed features

• Path completion in the exec menu (a0387a0)
• The entire ssh menu (26a8c6c)
• The entire wm menu (c0f391e)
• Matching on window title history (08ab650)

Added features and bugfixes

• XDG-compliant configuration file location
• Windows are automatically raised when fullscreened
• Warping to last active window if there is no active client (47703bb)
• Ignored clients are not shown in the window menu (37d5340)
• Colors are calculated using the client's visual and colormap, enabling support for compositors (13377b4)
• A memory leak in conf_clear has been fixed (5ff1dc2)
• A string truncation issue in menu_draw has been fixed (49be2ed)
• cwm no longer warps the pointer when normal applications send _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW (417a61e)

See the respective commits for more information.