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EPIwm is a window manager born out of a school project.It is intended to be small, fast, and configurable while maintening a large feature set.

• Intel GNU/Linux Redhat 5.x 6.0, Mandrake and Debian (primary platform)
• Intel NetBSD 1.4 (primary platform)
• Sparc NetBSD 1.4
• Linux PPC
• Alpha Digital Unix v4.0 (OSF1)

And probably on another...

Patches to make it work on other platforms are welcome.

• X11R6

• Imlib
• libpng
• libtiff
• libxpm
• libgif
• libjpeg

• X11R6 libs
• cc or gcc
• make

Uncompress the archive :

gunzip -c epiwm-0.5.6.tar.gz| tar xvf -

Enter in the directory, configure it and build it :

cd epiwm-0.5.6./configuremake

If you want to disable the use of libXpm, add--disable-xpm to./configure.

If you want to disable the use of Imlib, add--disable-imlib to./configure.

You can specify where to install config files with the--sysconfdir=[PATH] option of configure.

See (./configure --help)

If it does not work, you can try :

make -f Makefile.linux

Build the tgz archive as indicated above.

If you want to install EPIwm, you must be root and type:

make install-strip

If it does not work, you can try :

make -f Makefile.linux install

Be root and just type :

rpm -ivh EPIwm-0.5.6-1.i386.rpm

Be root and just type :

dpkg -i epiwm_0.5.6-1_i386.deb

Add this following line in your~/.xinitrc or your~/.xsession file :

exec epiwm

It's finished. You can launch EPIwm.

Decompress the theme in your~/.epiwm directory :

tar xvfz EPIwm_be_theme.tar.gz

Now you have two directories :

$ ls~/.epiwm$ be/ pixmaps/

Edit your.xinitrc file and add the line :

exec epiwm -theme~/.epiwm/be

Now it's OK. So you can have several theme directories in your~/.epiwm directory. And you can select the theme that you want with the -theme option of the epiwmcommand.

• Mulot Julien
• Poindessous Thomas
• Rault Stephane

For more information go tohttps://github.com/mulot/epiwm