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22 .Nd small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.
27 is a minimalistic window manager that tries to stay out of the way so that
28 valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff.
29 It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any
31 It was written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be small, compact and
34 The following notation is used throughout this page:
36 .Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
48 is very simple in its use.
49 Most of the actions are initiated via keybindings.
50 The current keybindings are described below:
52 .Bl -tag -width "C-M-EscapeXXX" -offset indent -compact
71 Add windows to master area.
73 Remove windows from master area.
75 Move current window to master area.
77 Focus next window in workspace.
79 Focus next window in workspace.
81 Focus previous window in workspace.
83 Focus previous window in workspace.
85 Focus on main window in workspace.
87 Swap with next window in workspace.
89 Swap with previous window in workspace.
91 Toggle status bar in all workspaces.
93 Destroy current window in workspace.
95 Switch to workspace [Number].
97 Move current window to workspace [Number].
99 Switch to next workspace with a window in it.
101 Switch to previous workspace with a window in it.
109 .It Pa ~/.scrotwm.conf
110 This file contains user specific settings.
111 .It Pa /etc/scrotwm.conf
112 This file contains global settings.
116 first tries to open the user specific file.
117 If that file is unavailable it tries to open the global file next.
119 The format of the file is <keyword> = <setting>.
120 E.g. color_focus = red.
122 The file supports the following keywords:
123 .Bl -tag -width "C-M-EscapeXXX" -offset indent -compact
125 Border color of the currently focussed window.
127 Border color of unfocussed windows.
129 Enable or disable status bar.
131 Color of the status bar border in screen x.
133 Color of the status bar window in screen x.
134 .It Ic bar_font_color[x]
135 Color of the font in status bar in screen x.
139 External script to populate additional information in the status bar such as
142 Update frequency of external script on the status bar.
144 External application that gets spawned when M-S-[Return] is used.
146 Some applications have dialog windows that are too small to be useful.
147 This ratio is the screen size as to what they will be resized.
148 E.g 0.6 is 60% of the physical screen size.
151 Colors need to be specified per the
153 specification and fonts need to be specified per the
157 Currently the menu, invoked with M-p, depends on dmenu.
163 .An Marco Peereboom Aq marco@peereboom.us
165 .An Ryan Thomas McBride Aq mcbride@countersiege.com .
168 was inspired by xmonad & dwm.