MIWM(1)

okay bestie, pull up a chair because you're about to read the MIWM(1) page from the General Commands Manual and it's lowkey a whole vibe 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

miwm — a minimal appearance, full-function window manager 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

miwm

that's it. that's the whole synopsis. iconic behavior honestly 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

MIWM is Ben Wise's MInimal Window Manager. You pronounce it 'my whim' — yes really, that's the pronunciation, no cap. 🫶

So the goal of miwm? It wants to be a fully functional window manager while still keeping a very spare appearance and command-set. Zen or Spartan, as you please — those are literally the vibes on offer, pick your fighter. ✨

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💀 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.

not me reading a man page that's actively telling me not to trust it 😭 respect the honesty tho fr fr

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👑 COMMANDS 👑

first, the notation, because we gotta learn the language before we gossip: Mouse-1-frame means 'button 1 click on frame', and C-Mouse-3-root means 'control button 3 click on root'. iykyk 🧚

• Mouse-1-frame — Raise. ⬆️
• Mouse-2-frame — Move. 🕺 Mouse-2-root Select virtual workspace.
• Mouse-3-frame — 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). 🌈

yeah bestie, we all clocked that this section wandered off mid-thought. it's giving "leftover template pieces," which the WARNING literally warned us about. keeping it 100% intact anyway because the facts stay, the vibe just changes. 💅

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• Miwm — No command-line options. 🍓

that's it. zero flags. zero --help drama. she simply does not take options and she's at peace with that ✨

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🔥 KNOWN BUGS 🔥

• The code is too complicated. 😭
• No icon support. 💀

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• 9wm(1)
• aewm(1)

go read your sisters' pages, they're in the family group chat too 🫶

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Ben Paul Wise 👑

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🧚 RESTRICTIONS 🧚

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

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and that's the whole page, bestie — brought to you by Ben Paul Wise, 06 May 2003, MIWM(1) 💖✨ mwah, go raise some windows 🎀