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Viper Window Manager (VWM) is a lightweight, extensible window manager for
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the console. Originally, VWM was designed to be the reference implementation
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of libviper. In fact, the two projects were initially one before public
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release.
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From conception, VWM was designed to be both lightweight and ssh
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friendly. Character based line-art compresses very well as do the escape
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sequences which handle cursor manipulation. This makes VWM quite suitable
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for low-bandwidth, remote connectivity over ssh.
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It is also very easy to extend the functionality of VWM. By following a
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few simple API rules, anyone can create a "native application" which will
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appear on the VWM Main Menu. The mechanism for this is very similar to
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Mozilla-style plugins.
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See /usr/doc/vwm-2.0.2/samples/vwmrc for information on customising VWM.
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