1 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
2 "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
5 <title>/var/www/peereboom.us/scrotwm/scotwm.html</title>
6 <meta name="Generator" content="Vim/7.1">
7 <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
9 Welcome to Scrotwm's website.<p>
11 Scrotwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.
12 It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can
13 be used for much more important stuff.
14 It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do
16 It was written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be small, compact and
19 It was largely inspired by
20 <a href="http://xmonad.org/">xmonad</a>
22 <a href="http://www.suckless.org/dwm/">dwm</a>.
23 Both are fine products but suffer from things like:
24 crazy-unportable-language-syndrome, silly defaults, asymmetrical window
25 layout, "how hard can it be?" and good old NIH.
26 Nevertheless dwm was a phenomenal resource and many good ideas and code
28 On the other hand xmonad has great defaults, key bindings and xinerama
29 support but is crippled by not being written in C.
31 Scrotwm is a beautiful pearl!
32 For it too, was created by grinding irritation.
33 Nothing is a bigger waste of time than moving windows around until they are the
34 right size-ish or having just about any relevant key combination being eaten
35 for some task one never needs.
36 The path of agony is too long to quote and in classical
37 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org">OpenBSD</a>
38 fashion (put up, or hack up) a brand new window manager was whooped up to serve
39 no other purpose than to obey its masters.
40 It was written by Marco Peereboom & Ryan Thomas McBride and it is released
42 <a href="license.html">license</a>.
43 Patches can be accepted provided they are ISC licensed as well.<br>
45 Folowing are a few screenshots of scrotwm in action.
47 <a href="scrotwm.jpg"><img border=0 src="scrotwm_small.jpg" alt="[scrotwm]"></a><br>
50 <a href="scrotwm2.jpg"><img border=0 src="scrotwm2_small.jpg" alt="[scrotwm2]"></a><br>
53 <a href="scrotwm3.jpg"><img border=0 src="scrotwm3_small.jpg" alt="[scrotwm3]"></a><br>
54 Horizontal stack with gvim & Firefox.
58 <body bgcolor="#101010" text="#ffffff"> <font face="monospace">
61 - add a few more items to the bar such as active work space, used workspaces etc.<br>
62 - resize/float windows with mouse<br>
63 - add search for window function<br>
68 <a href="man.html">man pages</a>
69 for a more detailed explanation.
71 You can download the source via anoncvs at:<br>
72 CVSROOT=anoncvs@code.freedaemon.com:/scrotwm<br>
74 Eventually there will be a link here to subscribe to CVS changes.
76 Copyright (c) 2009 Marco Peereboom <marco@peereboom.us> & Ryan
77 Thomas McBride <mcbride@countersiege.com><br>