awesome (window manager)
awesome is a dynamic window manager for the X Window System developed in the C and Lua programming languages. Lua is also used for configuring and extending the window manager. Its development began as a fork of dwm, though has differed considerably since. It aims to be extremely small and fast, yet extensively customizable. It makes it possible for the user to manage windows with the use of keyboard.
awesome with a number of terminals open | |
| Original author(s) | Julien Danjou |
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| Initial release | September 18, 2007 |
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| Written in | C and Lua |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Type | Window manager |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Website | awesomewm.org |
The fork was initially nicknamed jdwm, where "jd" denoted the principal programmer's initials and dwm denoted the software project it was forked from. The first git repository for what was to become awesome was set up in September 2007. jdwm was renamed to awesome, named after the same phrase used by the How I Met Your Mother character Barney Stinson. awesome was officially announced on the dwm mailing list on September 20, 2007.