Download mcwm

This is the download page for mcwm, a minimalistic window manager.

Latest and recommended distribution first. User visible changes in NEWS. For a list of all changes or if you want the bleeding edge, check out the git repository:

% git clone http://hack.org/mc/git/mcwm

Note that mcwm may be available as a package in your operating system's software distribution. For instance, mcwm is known to be available in FreeBSD ports as x11-wm/mcwm. It is also available in NetBSD, Arch Linux, PuppyLinux and possibly other distributions.

Martin "cos" Samuelsson has a Debian package.

mcwm-20130209-2.tar.bz2. New features: Backtabbing and moving to previous and next workspace. Some compiling fixes for other platforms. New flag: -i to allow windows to be hidden. xcb_util handling rewritten.

mcwm-20111124.tar.bz2. Bugfix and more features. Please note! -b is no longer boolean and requires a numeric argument.

mcwm-20110818.tar.bz2. Mainly bugfix release. Fixes crashing bug if you have only one screen.

mcwm-20110721.tar.bz2. RANDR support! Many bug fixes and code cleanup.

mcwm-20110412.tar.bz2.

mcwm-20110308.tar.bz2. MODKEY-Tab can now focus last focused window.

mcwm-20101118-2.tar.bz2 Please note! Changed from use of Mod2 to Mod4!

mcwm-20101101.tar.bz2

mcwm-20100803-3.tar.bz2

mcwm-20100803.tar.bz2

mcwm-20100721.tar.bz2

mcwm-20100720.tar.bz2

mcwm-20100719-2.tar.bz2