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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
84 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Return
85 Move current window to master area
90 Focus next window in workspace
95 Focus previous window in workspace
97 Focus on main window in workspace
99 Swap with next window in workspace
101 Swap with previous window in workspace
103 Toggle status bar in all workspaces
105 Destroy current window in workspace
109 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Ar n
110 Move current window to workspace
112 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Right
113 Switch to next workspace with a window in it
114 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Left
115 Switch to previous workspace with a window in it
116 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Right
117 Move pointer to next region
118 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Left
119 Move pointer to previous region
121 Take screenshot of entire screen (if enabled)
123 Take screenshot of selected window (if enabled)
131 .Sh CONFIGURATION FILES
133 first tries to open the user specific file,
134 .Pa ~/.scrotwm.conf .
135 If that file is unavailable,
136 it then tries to open the global configuration file
137 .Pa /etc/scrotwm.conf .
139 The format of the file is \*(Ltkeyword\*(Gt = \*(Ltsetting\*(Gt.
142 .Dl color_focus = red
144 Enabling or disabling an option is done by using 1 or 0 respectively.
146 The file supports the following keywords:
148 .Bl -tag -width "screenshot_enabledXXX" -offset indent -compact
150 Border color of the currently focussed window.
152 Border color of unfocussed windows.
154 Enable or disable status bar.
155 .It Cm bar_border Ns Bq Ar x
156 Color of the status bar border in screen
158 .It Cm bar_color Ns Bq Ar x
159 Color of the status bar window in screen
161 .It Cm bar_font_color Ns Bq Ar x
162 Color of the font in status bar in screen
167 External script that populates additional information in the status bar,
168 such as battery life.
170 Update frequency, in seconds, of external script that populates the status bar.
172 External application that gets spawned when
173 .Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Return
176 Some applications have dialogue windows that are too small to be useful.
177 This ratio is the screen size to what they will be resized.
178 For example, 0.6 is 60% of the physical screen size.
179 .It Cm screenshot_enabled
180 Enable or disable screenshot capability.
181 .It Cm screenshot_app
182 Set to the script that will take screenshots.
183 It will be called with "full" or "window" as parameter 1 to indicate what
184 screenshot action is expected.
185 The script shall handle those cases accordingly.
188 Colors need to be specified per the
190 specification and fonts need to be specified per the
194 .Bl -tag -width "/etc/scrotwm.confXXX" -compact
195 .It Pa ~/.scrotwm.conf
197 user specific settings.
198 .It Pa /etc/scrotwm.conf
204 was inspired by xmonad & dwm.
210 .An Marco Peereboom Aq marco@peereboom.us
212 .An Ryan Thomas McBride Aq mcbride@countersiege.com .
214 Currently the menu, invoked with