Looking for a light weight tiled window manager.

Hello everyone,
I am looking for a light weight window manager with tile support. I am a programmer by hobby and I like to be able to maximize my screen real estate.
I love hot key and terminal use it just speeds up the process. I don't however want it to have a huge scripting learning curve. Currently I am in the process of learning Android development so having to learn a new scripting language on top of it won't make matters better.
Currently I am comfortable with bash, and python. I can also do some work in perl but not super fluent with it yet.
It would also help if it has dual monitor support. My main monitor is a 23" LCD max res 1920x1080 and my second monitor is a 17" LCD max res 1440x900 until I get around to picking up another 23".

Runiq wrote:
Search first, post later:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lig … plications
another good wiki page is the tiler comparison, the chart shows vitals, like what they are configured in
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Com … w_Managers
Last edited by hume's doona (2010-10-08 12:17:51)

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Subtle - another tiling window manager

It's been a while since the first subtle AUR package came up and there was never neither an introduction nor a thread here in the forum. Time to get this started and to hopefully get opinions/feedback of the of users who already gave/want to give subtle a try.
For all of you who never heared about subtle - here comes the intro:
subtle is another tiling window manager on the field with a grid-based manual tiling window manager with a strong focus on easy but customizable look and feel. In comparison to other tiling windows managers, subtle has no automatic tiling of the screen size in any way, instead windows are arranged according to positions inside of a grid - these positions are called gravities - which can completely be controlled with key bindings.
subtle also has a Ruby based config with support for lambdas as key bind actions, a wmctrl-like commandline tool (subtler) to interact with subtle and an extension (subtlext) for Ruby that is capable of doing the same and even more!
There are also small Ruby applets (sublets) that can show various stuff like system load and the time. The management of these scripts can be done with sur (Subtle User Repository) - a small command line script similar to gem which makes installing of a subtlet a piece of cake e.g.:
sur install clock
Windows placement and window properties are determined by a complete tagging system for clients and views and can be manipulated in the config and/or per runtime with subtler/subtlext.
Features
- Ruby integration for config/key actions and hooks
- Flexible panels with loadable Ruby scripts (sublets)
- Integrated System tray
- Complete tagging system
- ICCM/EWMH-compliant
- Lightweight
Screenshots
Install
The AUR packages: subtle subtle-hg sur-hg
I would suggest to pick the subtle-hg package to get the latest changes.
Contact
If you have problems, suggestions or just want to talk about subtle feel free to join #subtle on irc.freenode.org or drop a mail to unexist at dorfelite dot net.
Last edited by unexist (2010-04-24 15:40:02)

dcurtis wrote:
I love this gravity idea but the WM in it's current state would not allow me to be productive (no offense) and I have a distaste for ruby ( love python ) but I'm willing to grow. However, here are my comments:
1) being able to tweak the gravity settings would be nice, and per-tag. I like to have a big left window (stacked) and a column of two windows on the right. I use wmii and this does this OK by dividing the right column. My one grip is the I could stack on the right, but I couldn't divide AND stack. I see the potential for that w/ subtle. Here is my current ss: http://static.milkbox.net/ss/ss-2009-05-06.png
2) it would be nice if you could have movement between gravities. I'd like to move between columns. And my gripe about like, musca and ratpoison is that when i do move between columns it doesn't keep track of the previous vertical position. Starting with the bottom right focused, moving to the left, and then moving back to the right focuses me in the top right. I think it would be _REALLY_ cool if you had some sort of column based movement (left gravity, center gravity, right gravity) that would cycle, and also movement up through the stack. Not sure how this would work.
3) I prefer that new windows are created with the same gravity as the windows already open. I would guess this is fairly easy to do.
4) switch to python... I AM KIDDING. but seriously, i know it'll never happen but that's cool. I just wanted to post this #4!...
anyways, keep up the good work.
1 + 2) What do you mean with 'per tag'? You can assign gravity tags to clients witht he config so that any layout is possible and you can freely create your own movement stuff with the grabs. Subtlext gives you control over gravities of the clients. Yes, it's Ruby and I won't argue about like you did in 4) - it's a matter of taste and I really like Ruby.
3) So just to understand this: If you set the top left gravity to a client, you would prefer that the next client also gets top left gravity?
Wra!th wrote:Floating windows need to be stackable (egbe able to bring one infront of another using the mouse)
Well, actually this was in subtle but was removed in favor for the WindowRaise and WindowLower grab that allows e.g. to cycle through windows with center gravity.
milomouse wrote:A smaller complaint, which may or may not be due to my own ignorance, is that switching views (jump) with the shortcut seems to be a little picky. Sometimes I can use the shortcut to switch views and sometimes it refuses to work. Seems to happen mostly when I'm on an empty view and try to switch (with the shortcut) to another . I don't know if it loses focus or what. Anyway, these are minor compared to my enjoyment with Subtle so far. Thanks again.
Oh, yes. I will fix it shortly tomorrow - you may write a ticket for it so that you can see when it's fixed.
Last edited by unexist (2009-05-10 09:57:51)

Neurowm - dynamic tiling window manager based on Xmonad

Hi,
I started to write my own window manager last year so that it fits exactly my needs. The project was paused due to a lack of time but last month I could start coding again and make it stable. It was my very first step into the X protocol so I decided to use C language and Xlib rather than XCB because of the documentation. I might plan to port it to XCB in the near future though.
neurowm is a dynamic tiling window manager based on Xmonad, where you must write your own configuration using C language instead of Haskell language. If you are familiar with Xmonad, you should be able to understand the configuration easily.
Some features:
- Compile and reload the comfiguration file on the fly withour restarting X
- Support of float layout
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- Border width, color and gaps can be configured at window level
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- Support of fixed windows on every layout
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- Java support (TODO)
Screenshots:
Website: https://github.com/nnoell/neurowm
There is no PKGBUILD at the moment and please, bear in mind that the window manager is under heavy development, so the configuration file might change a lot. Feel free to try it and leave some feedbacks.

i enjoy all the neuromancer references (wintermute). and your avatar from the cover of the c64 game. gibson would be proud ;D
I am not really good at names, that is why I take all of them from things I love. Next one won't be from neuromancer, I promisse
the wm looks very nice in your scrots. can i make some feature suggestions based on my wm experiences?
i've recently switched from awesomewm to herbsluftwm, and really like it.
- the binary tree division makes so much sense. you split a frame, then split that frame, and so on into infinity. and all those frames are movable via key-binding as well. as opposed to pre-defined layouts in awesome (and as far as i can tell, neurowm too).
- having a command line tool that you use to dynamically set properties is amazing. border colors, gaps, displays, etc. e.g. you configure you monitor settings via a command v.s. you config file, this makes it more flexible for on the fly changes.
Yes, you are right, command line tools are very useful, I might think of adding that. Regarding the binary tree division, I think it would be good to create another "special" layout (as the floated one) with its own bindings. I think I will try herbsluftwm and compare it to Xmonad so I can get to the point.
I decided to create an Xmonad-like window manager using C language because many people don't know Haskell and GHC is quite heavy. The configuration file might be difficult to understand at first (specially if you are not familiar with C language) but if you guys have any problem, don't hesitate to contact me
PD: Ninja gaiden is also an amazing franchise, specially the 3 games from the NES, played a lot when I was a kid.

Question(s) about tiling window manager

Hello fellow Arch-users.
I'm looking for a new WM and need some help/advise from the community.
Currently I run Xfce. However, I have found over the past couple of month that I usually use terminals to get tasks done, such as starting programs, editing files or browse my computer and that my graphical WM stands more in my way than it is any good to me.
I do still use graphical programs, for example Icecat as my browser and Claws-mail as my e-mail client among others and will continue to do so. But for editing files or browsing my computer I already use vim and mc (midnight commander).
So, I thought I may be better off with a tiling WM. However, I'm not so sure if I have the right idea of a tiling window manager. My idea of a tiling WM is that I can place many terminals on my desktop and my graphical programs on top of them. Is that correct? Also I hope that the WM is able to open these terminals without interfering with each other, meaning that they don't overlap or something. I don't want to have to always move them around with the mouse. Does a tiling window manager do that?
If I make the change, I'd like to have WM that is easy to set up and configure. I don't want to spent too much time configuring and tweaking the program. I was looking into Subtle or Awesome. Would that be a good idea?
Again, maybe my idea of such kind of window manager is totally wrong. Therefore, I'm seeking support from the people who already use them.
Thanks in advance!
Last edited by Janusz11 (2011-01-24 18:35:47)

Janusz11 wrote:So, I thought I may be better off with a tiling WM. However, I'm not so sure if I have the right idea of a tiling window manager. My idea of a tiling WM is that I can place many terminals on my desktop and my graphical programs on top of them. Is that correct? Also I hope that the WM is able to open these terminals without interfering with each other, meaning that they don't overlap or something. I don't want to have to always move them around with the mouse. Does a tiling window manager do that?
Yes, exactly. Tiling window manager arrange your windows dependent on their alignment strategy, there are many WMs that do that according to a preset layouts like wmfs, awesome, xmonad and other that offer a more flexible (manual) approach like wmii and i3 to name a few. There is also subtle, which offers a unique layout among the tiling windows managers. As far as I know all of them offer a floating mode, where windows can float loosely above the other tiled windows.
Generally you can say, the more flexible the whole thing is, the more you need to configure initially. Also some of the named WMs do more than just managing windows like providing a panel or tray on their own.
As far as I know all of them offer a floating mode, where windows can float loosely above the other tiled windows.
Janusz11 wrote:If I make the change, I'd like to have WM that is easy to set up and configure. I don't want to spent too much time configuring and tweaking the program. I was looking into Subtle or Awesome. Would that be a good idea?
subtle and awesome are very flexible and you need to/can do lots of things in your config. Personally I use and develop subtle and my opinion is quite biased.

Musca (Tiling Window Manager)

I've just come across this tiling window manager which seems to be very new, I've seen no mentions of it anywhere other than wikipedia, so I thought I'd download it and try it out. You can find it here, along with source and probably all the info you could possibly need.
"A simple tiling window manager for X, with features nicked from ratpoison and dwm"
http://aerosuidae.net/musca.html
It looks to be alot like dwm in the configuring aspect, (ie. edit config.h and compile), although it also has a start file which can be used to run some internal commands.
Anyway I've only been using it for literally the time it took me to write this post, but I thought I'd suggest that others give it a shot! I'm certainly enjoying it so far

aerosuidae wrote:Thanks. I've never even looked at the process for creating a package for AUR. If you are volunteering to maintain this (? ), get on the mailing list to hear about new releases: http://mail.aerosuidae.net/mailman/list … suidae.net
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aerosuidae wrote:No idea. Out of interest: Why do you think it better it gets run from $HOME?
The PKGBUILD becomes easier. Also if its in $HOME, you can make as many changes as you want and run it. You can even change the path of the executable, if you want. One disadvantage is that if you have multiple users on the computer, you will have to install for each user.
aerosuidae wrote:Oh. I rather like dates as they're IMHO more informative and useful than a number. Still, I can live with that.
Well if you use the dates, I will change the build method for every release. No big deal. Let me know which way you prefer.
aerosuidae wrote:
Inxsible wrote:The trouble with your shortcuts is, that I use most of those shortcuts in my Openbox setup --and in my dwm. like Mod4+r - to start rTorrent etc. I guess, I will just have to relearn all my shortcuts and not use Mod4 in the shortcuts for starting apps.
No, don't let Musca dictate to you how to work. Customize the combinations that clash using .musca_start or config.h
Is there a limit to how many keybindings you can add?
I currently have all of these.
struct keymap keymaps[] = {
{ "Mod4+Shift+h", "hsplit 1/2" },
{ "Mod4+Shift+v", "vsplit 1/2" },
{ "Mod4+Shift+r", "remove" },
{ "Mod4+Shift+o", "only" },
{ "Mod4+Shift+k", "kill" },
{ "Mod4+Shift+c", "cycle" },
{ "Mod4+Left", "focus left" },
{ "Mod4+Right", "focus right" },
{ "Mod4+Up", "focus up" },
{ "Mod4+Down", "focus down" },
{ "Mod4+Next", "use (next)" },
{ "Mod4+Prior", "use (prev)" },
{ "Mod4+Tab", "screen (next)" },
{ "Mod4+Shift+w", "switch window" },
{ "Mod4+Shift+g", "switch group" },
{ "Mod4+x", "shell" },
{ "Mod4+Shift+m", "command" },
{ "Mod4+Shift+d", "dedicate flip" },
{ "Mod4+Shift+a", "catchall flip" },
{ "Mod4+Shift+u", "undo" },
{ "Mod4+Shift+s", "stack flip" },
{ "Mod4+Control+Left", "resize left" },
{ "Mod4+Control+Right", "resize right" },
{ "Mod4+Control+Up", "resize up" },
{ "Mod4+Control+Down", "resize down" },
{ "Mod4+a", "exec lxappearance" },
{ "Mod4+b", "exec recorder" },
{ "Mod4+c", "exec conky" },
{ "Mod4+e", "exec easytag" },
{ "Mod4+f", "exec pcmanfm" },
{ "Mod4+g", "exec geany" },
{ "Mod4+t", "exec urxvt -bg black -fg white" },
If I add one more, the pkg builds fine, installs too...but when I log in, X starts for a microsecond and bombs. Here's dmesg | tail and it says that musca segfaults.
agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode
nvidia 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode
musca[10748]: segfault at 41 ip b7eb2aa8 sp bfcb5d6c error 4 in libc-2.9.so[b7e40000+140000]
agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP 2.0 bridge
agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode
nvidia 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode
musca[11554]: segfault at 41 ip b7e7faa8 sp bfc82d2c error 4 in libc-2.9.so[b7e0d000+140000]
agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP 2.0 bridge
agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode
nvidia 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode
Just wanted to let you know. If its a bug, I will open it on your launchpad bugtracker.
Last edited by Inxsible (2009-03-13 06:28:52)

Pwm - a simplistic tiling window manager in python3

Hello,
I want to announce a project which I have been working on in the last couple of weeks to learn about python.
PWM - A simplistic tiling window manager written in python3
AUR package pwm-git
github repo
As already said, pwm tries to be relatively simplistic, both in functionality as well as in code.
pwm includes:
Multiple workspaces.
A column-based layout, every window can be resized freely.
Windows can also float or be fullscreen.
A bar, similiar to i3bar.
A menu like dmenu but with fuzzy search.
Everything is configured in python.
There is no multimonitor support because I only have a laptop now with no additional screens.
For more information please check the github repo
Last edited by mibitzi (2013-08-10 02:16:16)

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Best tiling window manager for two monitors

I am looking for a window manager, that will work thus, my main window on my main left monitor, and my stack (my unfocused windows) on my right monitor. Is there a WM that can do this or anyone know one that comes close.
Thanks

skottish wrote:
If it helps at all, this is a useful way to look at awesome vs. xmonad:
awesome is pretty much a complete WM/DE (it's close to being a full DE) with a task bar, system tray, run dialog, something like nine preconfigured window management algorithms, right-click menus, etc. Through lua scripting it can be fully extended. There's a lot to awesome by default and more often than not users are going to start to tear it down because there's just so much of it.
xmonad out of the box is about 5% WM and 95% toolkit to build your own. It has no DE features upon first start and few layouts. If your objective is to build up your WM and not to tear it down, this is a good place to start. The GHC dependency is irrelevant if this is your goal (assuming you can afford the hard drive space) in my opinion.
One thing that's pretty cool about xmonad that a lot people may not realize is that some of it's developers are involved with Arch. Arch-haskell (the bazillion packages in AUR), Real World Haskell (the book), and GHC are all tied nicely together by some of these people.
What is cool about XMonad too that you can integrate Gnome and KDE easily in XMonad and bluetile is really cool for starters

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Wingo: floating and tiling window manager with per-monitor workspaces

More screenshots.
Wingo has two features which, when combined, set it apart from other window managers (maybe):
1) Support for both floating and tiling placement policies. Wingo can be used as a regular floating (stacking) window manager, complete with decorations, maximization, sticky windows, and most other things you might find in a window manager. Wingo can also be switched into a tiling mode where window decorations disappear, and windows are automatically managed via tiling.
2) Workspaces per monitor. In a multi-head setup, each monitor can display its own workspace---independent of the other monitors. This makes changing your view of windows in multi-head setups much easier than in most other window managers, which will only allow you to see one workspace stretched across all of your monitors. Also, since placement policies like floating and tiling affect workspaces, this makes it possible for one monitor to be tiling while another is floating!
Inspiration
Wingo is heavily inspired by Openbox and Xmonad (and of course, pytyle). Basically, Openbox's floating semantics (although most window managers are the same in this regard) and Xmonad's automatic tiling style plus its workspace model (workspaces per monitor). I've also adopted Xmonad's "greedy" workspace switching and embedded the concepts from the "DynamicWorkspaces" contrib library into the Gribble command system.
Configuration
Wingo is extremely configurable. This includes binding any of a vast number of commands to key or mouse presses, theming your window decorations and setting up hooks that will fire depending upon a set of match conditions.
All configuration is done using an INI like file format with support for simple variable substitution (which makes theming a bit simpler). No XML. No recompiling. No scripting.
Configuring key/mouse bindings and hooks uses a central command system called Gribble. For example, one can add a workspace named "cromulent" with this command while Wingo is running:
AddWorkspace "cromulent"
But that's not very flexible, right? It'd be nice if you could specify the name of workspace on the fly... For this, simply use the "Input" command as an argument to AddWorkspace, which shows a graphical prompt and allows you to type in a name:
AddWorkspace (Input "Enter your workspace name:")
The text entered into the input box will be passed to the AddWorkspace command.
Please see the HOWTO-COMMANDS file for more info. We've barely scratched the surface.
Scripting Wingo
So I lied earlier. You can kind of script Wingo by using its IPC mechanism. While Wingo is running, you can send any command you like:
wingo-cmd 'AddWorkspace "embiggen"'
Or perhaps you can't remember how to use the AddWorkspace command:
wingo-cmd --usage AddWorkspace
Which will print the parameters, their types and a description of the command.
Want to pipe some information to another program? No problem, since commands can return stuff!
wingo-cmd GetWorkspace
And you can even make commands repeat themselves every X milliseconds, which is ideal for use with something like dzen to show the name of the currently active window:
wingo-cmd --poll 500 'GetClientName (GetActive)' | dzen2
Finally, you can see a list of all commands, their parameters and their usage: (even if Wingo isn't running)
wingo-cmd --list-usage
(Wingo actually can provide enough information (or will soon) for ambitious hackers to script their own layouts in whatever programming language they like without ever having to deal with X at all. Assuming it has support for connecting to unix domain sockets. Or you could just use a shell with 'wingo-cmd' if you're into that kind of tomfoolery.)
Dynamic Workspaces
Having some set number of workspaces labeled 1, 2, 3, 4, ... is a thing of the past. While Wingo won't stop you from using such a simplistic model, it will egg you on to try something else: dynamic workspaces.
Dynamic workspaces takes advantage of two things: workspace names and adding/removing workspaces as you need them.
This is something that I find useful since I'm typically working on multiple projects, and my needs change as I work on them. For example, when working on Wingo, I might add the "wingo" workspace, along with the "xephyr" workspace and the "gribble" workspace. When I'm done, I can remove those and add other workspaces for my next project. Or I can leave those workspaces intact for when I come back to them later.
With Wingo, such a workflow is natural because you're no longer confined to "removing only the last workspace" or some other such nonsense. Plus, adding a workspace requires that you name it---so workspaces always carry some semantic meaning.
(N.B. I don't mean to imply that this model is new, just uncommon; particularly among floating window managers. I've personally taken the model from xmonad-contrib's DynamicWorkspaces module.)
Tiling layouts
Right now, only simple tiling layouts are available. (Vertical and Horizontal.) Mostly because those are the layouts that I primarily use. I'll be adding more as they are demanded.
Dependencies
Wingo is written in pure Go (including all of its dependencies). As such, Go (and git) is the only package necessary to build and install Wingo. Once Wingo is installed, Go can be removed. (No Xlib/xcb, no cairo, no gui toolkits.)
Installation
Wingo is in the AUR. Alternatively, if you have a Go environment set up, you can download, build and install Wingo and all of its necessary dependencies with:
go get github.com/BurntSushi/wingo
go get github.com/BurntSushi/wingo/wingo-cmd
(Yes, Go's build system is really that awesome.)
There's a lot more at Wingo's github.
Please note that Wingo should be considered in a very alpha state. I've been using it for a little bit myself, but beyond that, Wingo is untested.
Last edited by BurntSushi (2012-10-22 06:02:16)

netfun81 wrote:wow, nice wm. Install was a breeze, love having floating layout on one screen and tiling on another. In the past, for certain apps that wouldn't play well with a tiling wm, I would have to kill X, change my .xinitrc to start openbox and startx again. This seems like the perfect solution.
Thanks :-)
netfun81 wrote:Does "go get github.com/BurntSushi/wingo" always pull the latest from git? Can i just delete the wingo executable from go/bin and run command to upgrade to latest or do I need to delete config files each time to remain compatible?
Yes, `go get ...` always pulls from the latest git. I make sure that Wingo builds before pushing to `master`. I'll use a different branch for any longer term experiments.
You could use `wingo-git` in the AUR, but `go get` is just as good. (Indeed, the PKGBUILD uses `go get`!)
One note those, use this to update to instead:
go get -u github.com/BurntSushi/wingo
go get -u github.com/BurntSushi/wingo/wingo-cmd
You shouldn't have to delete any executables.
As far as configuration files go... I'm not sure. I haven't figured out how I'm going to handle them yet. I don't think any well-formed configuration file will break Wingo, but it's certainly possible that old configuration files will miss out on new features/options. (For example, I just added some new focus follows mouse options.) Wingo will always maintain an in-memory default configuration, so missing configuration options will also never break Wingo.
You can always check out the new configuration files by running `wingo --write-config`. You'll have to move `~/.config/wingo` to a temporary location first though.
If you're installing from the AUR, I'll try to add post installation messages for any big changes.
FYI, I should say that installation is so easy because of Go. :-) /plug
Last edited by BurntSushi (2012-10-26 21:07:44)

HT1923 Can not uninstall old version because the file it is looking for is not found on windows 8.1

First off I want to start that I am an IT professional, so not a dumb PC user.
I am running Windows 8.1. I have been running Itunes for a long time and when the auto-updater prompted me for an update, I used that to update. Aparently something happened during one of the updates and Windows thinks I have v 11.1.1.1 installed as well as the newest version. I discovered this when I connected my Ipod recently (It was a few months since my last sync) and it wasn't be recognized by Itunes. Windows discovered it as a device but Itunes wouldn't see it. I went to the forums/support and tried the trouble shooting steps to no avail. I finally did the normal "uninstall/reinstall" process and that is when I saw the two entries in the programs list in windows. I uninstalled the current version. When I tried to reinstall it would error out with "can not find the path to iTunes64.msi". I had a few of them in the path but they were for newer versions, not the 11.1.1.1. Then I looked around and saw the directory tree for Itunes were still there.
I tried to edit the registry in the local machine->uninstall hive but itunes was not on the list there because I went through every entry. They all had the names from programs on the list but Itunes wasn't there. I uninstalled everything else as per the Itunes support instructions (Quicktime/Bonquor/Etc) and still it didn't work. I deleted the Itunes directory manually and then ran CC cleaner to a few times to clean out all the broken registry entries. After that was done I still couldn't install Itunes because it detected the program from the list in windows that said it was installed (v 11.1.1.1). I restored the directory from my recycle bin, launched the exe directly and it worked and I was able to detect/sync my Ipod. BUT the system doesn't think I have it installed so I have to manually kick it off from the exe itself.
I want to fix this. I would think it would be to edit something, registry I assume, that populates that installed program list and then the newest installer should run fine. I am stuck so I am looking for help. Any suggestions/ideas or anything?
Thank you in advance.

I can't seem to find a way to delete this...SO I unmarked it as a question.
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Hi,
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Thansk you for your help.
Chak

Hi,
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Good luck.
Bill

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I've tried the following, to no avail:
Using "Select Disk" in TM preferences to re-select the disk
Deleting /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
Running system maintenance via Onyx
Resetting PRAM
Formatting the drive and setting it up for TM backups again
The Boot Camp partition is on the same drive as OS X (on a 180GB Intel 330 series SSD). During the Windows installation I re-formatted the partition as NTFS.
If I start OS X in Safe Boot mode, TM backups work. In Safe Boot mode, the NTFS partition isn't loaded so I suspect it has something to do with this. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

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Hi Lorheak,
thanks for the quick reply. I had the same idea already yesterday. I use Norton Internet Security for a long time now without any problems. I think this a Apple or Microsoft problem, because the popup window which appear come from Windows DEP. I got no message from the firewall with any problem. I check the log files from Norton and Windows already but find nothing. This is a very strange problem. In the past I have had a lot of other problems with iTunes upgrades. Everytime I accept the installation of the newest version I got errors regarding missing "msi" files.
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