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9 <font color="#ff40ff">SCROTWM(1) OpenBSD Reference Manual SCROTWM(1)</font><br>
11 <font color="#ffff00">NAME</font><br>
12 scrotwm - window manager for X11<br>
14 <font color="#ffff00">SYNOPSIS</font><br>
15 scrotwm<br>
17 <font color="#ffff00">DESCRIPTION</font><br>
18 scrotwm is a minimalistic window manager that tries to stay out of the<br>
19 way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more impor-<br>
20 tant stuff. It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a<br>
21 language to do any configuration. It was written by hackers for hackers<br>
22 and it strives to be small, compact and fast.<br>
24 When scrotwm starts up, it reads settings from its configuration file,<br>
25 scrotwm.conf. See the CONFIGURATION FILES section below.<br>
27 The following notation is used throughout this page:<br>
29 M Meta<br>
30 S Shift<br>
31 <Name> Named key<br>
32 M1 Mouse button 1<br>
33 M3 Mouse button 3<br>
35 scrotwm is very simple in its use. Most of the actions are initiated via<br>
36 keybindings. The current keybindings are described below:<br>
38 M-S-<Return> Spawn a new terminal<br>
39 M-p Menu<br>
40 M-S-q Quit<br>
41 M-q Restart scrotwm<br>
42 M-<Space> Cycle layout<br>
43 M-S-<Space> Reset layout<br>
44 M-h Shrink master area<br>
45 M-l Grow master area<br>
46 M-, Add windows to master area<br>
47 M-. Remove windows from master area<br>
48 M-<Return> Move current window to master area<br>
49 M-j, M-<TAB> Focus next window in workspace<br>
50 M-k, M-S-<TAB> Focus previous window in workspace<br>
51 M-m Focus on main window in workspace<br>
52 M-S-j Swap with next window in workspace<br>
53 M-S-k Swap with previous window in workspace<br>
54 M-b Toggle status bar in all workspaces<br>
55 M-S-x Destroy current window in workspace<br>
56 M-<n> Switch to workspace n<br>
57 M-S-<n> Move current window to workspace n<br>
58 M-<Right> Switch to next workspace with a window in it<br>
59 M-<Left> Switch to previous workspace with a window in it<br>
60 M-S-<Right> Move pointer to next region<br>
61 M-S-<Left> Move pointer to previous region<br>
62 M-s Take screenshot of entire screen (if enabled)<br>
63 M-S-s Take screenshot of selected window (if enabled)<br>
64 M1 Focus window<br>
65 M-M1 Move window<br>
66 M-M3 Resize window<br>
68 <font color="#ffff00">CONFIGURATION FILES</font><br>
69 scrotwm first tries to open the user specific file, ~/.scrotwm.conf. If<br>
70 that file is unavailable, it then tries to open the global configuration<br>
71 file /etc/scrotwm.conf.<br>
73 The format of the file is <keyword> = <setting>. For example:<br>
75 color_focus = red<br>
77 Enabling or disabling an option is done by using 1 or 0 respectively.<br>
79 The file supports the following keywords:<br>
81 color_focus Border color of the currently focussed win-<br>
82 dow.<br>
83 color_unfocus Border color of unfocussed windows.<br>
84 bar_enabled Enable or disable status bar.<br>
85 bar_border[x] Color of the status bar border in screen x.<br>
86 bar_color[x] Color of the status bar window in screen x.<br>
87 bar_font_color[x] Color of the font in status bar in screen x.<br>
88 bar_font Status bar font.<br>
89 bar_action External script that populates additional<br>
90 information in the status bar, such as bat-<br>
91 tery life.<br>
92 bar_delay Update frequency, in seconds, of external<br>
93 script that populates the status bar.<br>
94 spawn_term External application that gets spawned when<br>
95 M-S-<Return> is used.<br>
96 dialog_ratio Some applications have dialogue windows that<br>
97 are too small to be useful. This ratio is<br>
98 the screen size to what they will be re-<br>
99 sized. For example, 0.6 is 60% of the phys-<br>
100 ical screen size.<br>
101 screenshot_enabled Enable or disable screenshot capability.<br>
102 screenshot_app Set to the script that will take screen-<br>
103 shots. It will be called with "full" or<br>
104 "window" as parameter 1 to indicate what<br>
105 screenshot action is expected. The script<br>
106 shall handle those cases accordingly.<br>
108 Colors need to be specified per the <font color="#ff40ff">XQueryColor(3)</font> specification and<br>
109 fonts need to be specified per the <font color="#ff40ff">XQueryFont(3)</font> specification.<br>
111 <font color="#ffff00">FILES</font><br>
112 ~/.scrotwm.conf scrotwm user specific settings.<br>
113 /etc/scrotwm.conf scrotwm global settings.<br>
115 <font color="#ffff00">HISTORY</font><br>
116 scrotwm was inspired by xmonad & dwm.<br>
118 <font color="#ffff00">AUTHORS</font><br>
119 scrotwm was written by Marco Peereboom <marco@peereboom.us> and Ryan<br>
120 Thomas McBride <mcbride@countersiege.com>.<br>
122 <font color="#ffff00">BUGS</font><br>
123 Currently the menu, invoked with M-p, depends on dmenu.<br>
125 OpenBSD 4.4 January 29, 2009 2<br>