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Discussion on: Herbstluftwm: A Dead Simple Window Manager

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gene-ressler

Maybe the author is joshing you. Herbst means autumn in German, and Luft is air. Wm is of course window manager. "Autumn air" sounds very romantic. 🙂

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Angad Sharma

Hahaha 😄. Very intriguing name for a window manager

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borisv

I was wondering how hard it could be for the author to look this up in a dictionary. Funny enough I read it Herbstluftwurm, as in atumn air worm, until I read your post, which to me made up for an even more poetic name. Anyway, technically reminds me of course of dlwm, which I have used a lot. I'll give it a try on WSL2)))