wmii是我如今工作和学习时用的wm，日常还是用gnome。wmii不像gnome和kde广为人知，它存在的意义就是寻求高效的开发环境，对于非IT界人也许比较geeky。官方是这样介绍wmii的：wmii is a small,dynamic tiling(平铺) window manager for X11.对于gonme或kde用户，tiling比较陌生，科普一下->wiki

In computing, a tiling window manager(平铺式窗口管理器) is a window manager with an organization of the screen into mutually non-overlapping frames, as opposed to the more popular approach of coordinate-based stacking of overlapping objects (windows) that tries to fully emulate the desktop metaphor.

从广义的wm概念讲，wm决定了窗口位置、桌面背景、菜单栏、右键菜单、键鼠控制、工作区、状态栏、运行对话框等。配置上，除极少数hacker对FVWM这种会晕的wm，其它的wm大同小异，包括wmii。除FVWM贯彻到底的自由主义外，其它的wm或多或少有着自己的特点。metacity(gnome)，kwin(kde)一般认为为重量级wm，视觉上截然不同的感官效果，功能上差异明显，运行进程庞大。诸如xfce,openbox,flukbox之类的wm属于轻量级wm，轻量级wm一般只有习惯上的差异，当然通过配置可达到功能上基本相似，以简洁为荣的轻量级wm，都占用较少的系统资源。而tilling wm较轻量级wm，一般省去了桌面背景、菜单栏、右键菜单，强化了窗口位置(特色的吸附特性)、键鼠控制、工作区、状态栏、运行对话框。twm的结构和特性大大提升了工作时编写代码的效率。

如今，tilling wm渐渐展露其非凡，众多twm的发行版也浮出了水面。据Arcthur所知，tilling wm至少有8种以上，例举下大致上有awesome、dwm、xmonad、ratpoison、ion3、wmii等。国内社区中，由于Linuxer的局限，各tilling wm在国内社区中露脸的机会相当稀少，论坛上鲜有其讨论(Archlinux社区相对较多)。当然，它们的缺陷也屡见不鲜，如wmii标题栏中文极难配置，需要安装特定的字体，又只能配置一种字体，每个窗口都有一个标题栏，fork的进程太多，比较耗资源等等。其它twm亦不例外的有一些不足，因为我正在学习java和ruby，wmii可以很方便的用ruby来扩展，对于rubyist，ruby-wmii是个很好的起点，它只是一个配置文件，可以在它的基础上做修改，通读一遍代码基本能可以了解wmii的各个方面。

vim+xterm+wmii，完全在键盘上操作的快感也只有在体验过这样的组合后才会知道。最后，贴上wmii的快捷键

Key bindings

These are the default aliases:

MODKEY   Mod1
MODKEY2  Mod4  (often win key)
UP       k
DOWN     j
LEFT     h
RIGHT    l

MODKEY2-space        Switch between raw and normal input modes.
                     The current mode is indicated in the bar. All other key
                     bindings are ignored in raw mode.
MODKEY-Control-y     Run program with given tag (uses wmiimenu twice to get
                     the tag and the program).
MODKEY-a             Ask for action and execute it.
                     Includes internal and external (i.e. dependent on a
                     script in $HOME/.wmii-3) actions. Remembers the last
                     actions executed and presents them at the beginning.
MODKEY-p             Ask for a program and execute it.
                     The list of programs is updated periodically and cached.
                     Remembers the last programs executed and presents them at
                     the beginning.
MODKEY-0..9          Choose either the corresponding numerical view (if it
                     exists) or the (N-last_numerical_view)th non-numeric view
                     e.g. if the views are  1 2 3 4 code irc web
                     and you press MODKEY-6, it'll take you to  irc
MODKEY-Shift-0..9    Either replace the the numeric tag of the current client
                     or retag it as the (N-last_numerical_view)th non-numeric
                     view.
MODKEY-t             Ask for view to move to.
                     Tries to sort the choices intelligently based on
                     previous movement.
MODKEY-LEFT          Select prev column.
MODKEY-RIGHT         Select next column.
MODKEY-UP            Select prev client.
MODKEY-DOWN          Select next client.
MODKEY-space         Toggle managed/floating layer.
MODKEY-d             Set default mode.
MODKEY-s             Set stacked mode.
MODKEY-m             Set max mode.
MODKEY-f             Maximize current floating client.
MODKEY-i             Move bottom of current client down (i.e. enlarge)
MODKEY-Shift-i       Move bottom of current client up (i.e. shrinken).
MODKEY-Return        Launch terminal.
MODKEY-Shift-LEFT    Send to prev column.
MODKEY-Shift-RIGHT   Send to next column.
MODKEY-Shift-DOWN    Swap with lower client.
MODKEY-Shift-UP      Swap with upper client.
MODKEY-Shift-space   Toggle managed/floating layer for client.
MODKEY-Shift-c       Kill current client
MODKEY-r             Go back to previous view (where we came from).
                     Pressing more than once makes you cycle between 2 views.
MODKEY-Control-UP,
MODKEY-comma         Move to (lexicographically) preceding view.
MODKEY-Control-DOWN,
MODKEY-period        Move to (lexicographically) following view.
MODKEY2-Shift-UP,
MODKEY2-comma        Move to (lexicographically) preceding view within
                     current namespace.
MODKEY2-Shift-DOWN,
MODKEY2-period       Move to (lexicographically) following view within
                     current namespace.
MODKEY-Shift-t       Retag current client. Allows +/- modifiers to add/remove
                     tag.
MODKEY-Shift-r       Retag current client and move to corresponding view.
                     Alloes +/- modifiers.
MODKEY2-Shift-t      Retag in the namespace. Given a client tagged as foo+bar:
                       baz   retags it as bar:baz
                       +baz  retags it as foo+bar+bar:baz
                     Given foo+bar:baz, -baz  retags as  foo
MODKEY2-Shift-r      Retag as MODKEY2-Shift-t and moves to new view.
MODKEY2-a..z         Jump to first view whose name starts with the given
                     letter, sorted with intellisort (favors views chosen
                     before)
MODKEY-plus          Move forward in view history
MODKEY-minus         Move backwards in view history.
MODKEY-b             Open bookmark (see README.applets for further
                     information).
MODKEY-Shift-b       Bookmark URL in X11 primary selection buffer. Again, see
                     README.applets.

Internal actions (MODKEY-a)

 browser:     if given an argument, open the given URL in a browser, otherwise
              ask for it
 google:      same as 'browser', but searches with google
 screenshot:  takes a screenshot in $HOME/tmp/NAME-IDX.png, where NAME is
              either the given parameter or 'screenshot', and IDX is
              incremented automatically
 rename-view: change the name of the current view, and retag all clients
              accordingly. Takes the new name as a parameter, or asks for it.
 wmiirc:      reload the wmiirc configuration
 config-help: shows information about how to use and configure wmiirc, as well
              as how to write plugins

文章参考：

• 平铺式窗口管理器——Awesome
• ruby-wmii

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