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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
58 is very simple in its use.
59 Most of the actions are initiated via keybindings.
60 The current keybindings are described below:
62 .Bl -tag -width "M-j, M-<TAB>XXX" -offset indent -compact
63 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Return
72 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Space
74 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Space
81 Add windows to master area
83 Remove windows from master area
85 Add columns/rows to stacking area
87 Remove columns/rows from stacking area
88 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Return
89 Move current window to master area
94 Focus next window in workspace
99 Focus previous window in workspace
101 Focus on main window in workspace
103 Swap with next window in workspace
105 Swap with previous window in workspace
107 Toggle status bar in all workspaces
109 Destroy current window in workspace
113 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Ar n
114 Move current window to workspace
116 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Right
117 Switch to next workspace with a window in it
118 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Left
119 Switch to previous workspace with a window in it
120 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Right
121 Move pointer to next region
122 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Left
123 Move pointer to previous region
125 Take screenshot of entire screen (if enabled)
127 Take screenshot of selected window (if enabled)
129 Toggle version in status bar
131 Toggle focused window between tiled and floating
132 .It Cm M-S Aq Cm Delete
135 Reinitialize physical screens
143 Resize window while maintaining it centered
145 .Sh CONFIGURATION FILES
147 first tries to open the user specific file,
148 .Pa ~/.scrotwm.conf .
149 If that file is unavailable,
150 it then tries to open the global configuration file
151 .Pa /etc/scrotwm.conf .
153 The format of the file is \*(Ltkeyword\*(Gt = \*(Ltsetting\*(Gt.
156 .Dl color_focus = red
158 Enabling or disabling an option is done by using 1 or 0 respectively.
160 The file supports the following keywords:
162 .Bl -tag -width "screenshot_enabledXXX" -offset indent -compact
164 Border color of the currently focussed window.
166 Border color of unfocussed windows.
168 Enable or disable status bar.
169 .It Cm bar_border Ns Bq Ar x
170 Color of the status bar border in screen
172 .It Cm bar_color Ns Bq Ar x
173 Color of the status bar window in screen
175 .It Cm bar_font_color Ns Bq Ar x
176 Color of the font in status bar in screen
181 External script that populates additional information in the status bar,
182 such as battery life.
184 Update frequency, in seconds, of external script that populates the status bar.
186 External application that gets spawned when
187 .Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Return
190 Some applications have dialogue windows that are too small to be useful.
191 This ratio is the screen size to what they will be resized.
192 For example, 0.6 is 60% of the physical screen size.
194 Allocates a custom region, removing any autodetected regions which occupy the same
196 Defined in the format screen[<idx>]:WIDTHxHEIGHT+X+Y, e.g. screen[1]:800x1200+0+0.
197 .It Cm screenshot_enabled
198 Enable or disable screenshot capability.
199 .It Cm screenshot_app
200 Set to the script that will take screenshots.
201 It will be called with "full" or "window" as parameter 1 to indicate what
202 screenshot action is expected.
203 The script shall handle those cases accordingly.
206 Colors need to be specified per the
208 specification and fonts need to be specified per the
212 .Bl -tag -width "/etc/scrotwm.confXXX" -compact
213 .It Pa ~/.scrotwm.conf
215 user specific settings.
216 .It Pa /etc/scrotwm.conf
222 was inspired by xmonad & dwm.
228 .An Marco Peereboom Aq marco@peereboom.us
230 .An Ryan Thomas McBride Aq mcbride@countersiege.com .
232 Currently the menu, invoked with