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22 .Nd 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
36 starts up, it reads settings from its configuration file,
39 .Sx CONFIGURATION FILES
42 The following notation is used throughout this page:
44 .Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
56 is very simple in its use.
57 Most of the actions are initiated via keybindings.
58 The current keybindings are described below:
60 .Bl -tag -width "M-j, M-<TAB>XXX" -offset indent -compact
61 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Return
70 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Space
72 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Space
79 Add windows to master area
81 Remove windows from master area
82 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Return
83 Move current window to master area
88 Focus next window in workspace
93 Focus previous window in workspace
95 Focus on main window in workspace
97 Swap with next window in workspace
99 Swap with previous window in workspace
101 Toggle status bar in all workspaces
103 Destroy current window in workspace
107 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Ar n
108 Move current window to workspace
110 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Right
111 Switch to next workspace with a window in it
112 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Left
113 Switch to previous workspace with a window in it
114 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Right
115 Move pointer to next region
116 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Left
117 Move pointer to previous region
119 Take screenshot of entire screen (if enabled)
121 Take screenshot of selected window (if enabled)
125 .Sh CONFIGURATION FILES
127 first tries to open the user specific file,
128 .Pa ~/.scrotwm.conf .
129 If that file is unavailable,
130 it then tries to open the global configuration file
131 .Pa /etc/scrotwm.conf .
133 The format of the file is \*(Ltkeyword\*(Gt = \*(Ltsetting\*(Gt.
136 .Dl color_focus = red
138 Enabling or disabling an option is done by using 1 or 0 respectively.
140 The file supports the following keywords:
142 .Bl -tag -width "screenshot_enabledXXX" -offset indent -compact
144 Border color of the currently focussed window.
146 Border color of unfocussed windows.
148 Enable or disable status bar.
149 .It Cm bar_border Ns Bq Ar x
150 Color of the status bar border in screen
152 .It Cm bar_color Ns Bq Ar x
153 Color of the status bar window in screen
155 .It Cm bar_font_color Ns Bq Ar x
156 Color of the font in status bar in screen
161 External script that populates additional information in the status bar,
162 such as battery life.
164 Update frequency, in seconds, of external script that populates the status bar.
166 External application that gets spawned when
167 .Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Return
170 Some applications have dialogue windows that are too small to be useful.
171 This ratio is the screen size to what they will be resized.
172 For example, 0.6 is 60% of the physical screen size.
173 .It Cm screenshot_enabled
174 Enable or disable screenshot capability.
175 .It Cm screenshot_app
176 Set to the script that will take screenshots.
177 It will be called with "full" or "window" as parameter 1 to indicate what
178 screenshot action is expected.
179 The script shall handle those cases accordingly.
182 Colors need to be specified per the
184 specification and fonts need to be specified per the
188 .Bl -tag -width "/etc/scrotwm.confXXX" -compact
189 .It Pa ~/.scrotwm.conf
191 user specific settings.
192 .It Pa /etc/scrotwm.conf
198 was inspired by xmonad & dwm.
204 .An Marco Peereboom Aq marco@peereboom.us
206 .An Ryan Thomas McBride Aq mcbride@countersiege.com .
208 Currently the menu, invoked with