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20 .Dd $Mdocdate: February 15 2012 $
25 .Nd window manager for X11
30 is a minimalistic window manager that tries to stay out of the way so that
31 valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff.
32 It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any
34 It was written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be small, compact and
39 starts up, it reads settings from its configuration file,
42 .Sx CONFIGURATION FILES
45 The following notation is used throughout this page:
47 .Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
61 is very simple in its use.
62 Most of the actions are initiated via key or mouse bindings.
65 section below for defaults and customizations.
66 .Sh CONFIGURATION FILES
68 first tries to open the user specific file,
69 .Pa ~/.spectrwm.conf .
70 If that file is unavailable,
71 it then tries to open the global configuration file
72 .Pa /etc/spectrwm.conf .
74 The format of the file is \*(Ltkeyword\*(Gt = \*(Ltsetting\*(Gt.
79 Enabling or disabling an option is done by using 1 or 0 respectively.
81 Colors need to be specified per the
85 Comments begin with a #. When a literal '#' is desired in an option, then it
86 must be escaped with a backslash. i.e. \e#
88 The file supports the following keywords:
91 Launch an application in a specified workspace at start-of-day.
92 Defined in the format ws[<idx>]:application, e.g. ws[2]:xterm launches an
95 External script that populates additional information in the status bar,
98 Place the statusbar at the bottom of each region instead of the top.
99 .It Ic bar_border Ns Bq Ar x
100 Border color of the status bar(s) in screen
102 .It Ic bar_border_unfocus Ns Bq Ar x
103 Border color of the status bar(s) on unfocused region(s) in screen
105 .It Ic bar_border_width
106 Set status bar border thickness in pixels.
107 Disable border by setting to 0.
108 .It Ic bar_color Ns Bq Ar x
109 Background color of the status bar(s) in screen
115 .It Ic bar_enabled_ws Ns Bq Ar x
122 Font used in the status bar. Either Xft or X Logical Font Description (XLFD)
123 may be used to specify fonts. Fallback fonts may be specified by separating
124 each font with a comma. If all entries are XLFD syntax, font set will be
125 used. If at least one entry is Xft, Xft will be used. Note that if Xft is in
126 use, only the first font that successfully loads will be used regardless of
127 missing glyphs. The default is to use font set. Also note that dmenu does
128 not support Xft fonts.
131 .Bd -literal -offset indent
132 bar_font = Terminus:style=Regular:pixelsize=14:antialias=true
134 bar_font = -*-profont-medium-*-*-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,Terminus:pixelsize=14,\
135 -*-clean-medium-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
139 .Bd -literal -offset indent
140 bar_font = -*-terminus-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
142 bar_font = -*-profont-medium-*-*-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
143 -*-terminus-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
144 -*-clean-medium-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
147 To list the available fonts in your system see
154 application can help with the XLFD setting.
156 .It Ic bar_font_color Ns Bq Ar x
157 Color of the font in status bar in screen
160 Set the bar_format string and overrides
165 The format is passed through
168 It may contain the following character sequences:
169 .Bl -column "Character sequence" "Replaced with" -offset indent
170 .It Sy "Character sequence" Ta Sy "Replaced with"
171 .It Li "+<" Ta "Pad with a space"
172 .It Li "+A" Ta "Output of the external script"
173 .It Li "+C" Ta "Window class (from WM_CLASS)"
174 .It Li "+D" Ta "Workspace name"
175 .It Li "+F" Ta "Floating indicator"
176 .It Li "+I" Ta "Workspace index"
177 .It Li "+M" Ta "Number of iconic (minimized) windows in workspace"
178 .It Li "+N" Ta "Screen number"
179 .It Li "+P" Ta "Window class and instance separated by a colon"
180 .It Li "+S" Ta "Stacking algorithm"
181 .It Li "+T" Ta "Window instance (from WM_CLASS)"
182 .It Li "+U" Ta "Urgency hint"
183 .It Li "+V" Ta "Program version"
184 .It Li "+W" Ta "Window name (from _NET_WM_NAME/WM_NAME)"
185 .It Li "++" Ta "A literal" Ql +
188 All character sequences may limit its output to a specific length, for
189 example +64A. Any characters that don't match the specification are copied
192 Justify the status bar text. Possible values are
198 Note that if the output is not
200 justified, it may not be properly aligned in some circumstances, due to the
201 white-spaces in the default static format.
204 option for more details.
205 .It Ic bind Ns Bq Ar x
206 Bind key combo to action
212 Set window border thickness in pixels.
213 Disable all borders by setting to 0.
214 .It Ic boundary_width
215 Set region containment boundary width in pixels. This is how far a window
216 must be dragged/resized beyond the region edge before it is allowed outside
217 the region. This has no effect when manipulating the window with key
218 bindings. Disable the window containment effect by setting to 0.
220 Enable or disable displaying the clock in the status bar.
221 Disable by setting to 0
222 so a custom clock could be used in the
225 .It Ic iconic_enabled
226 Display the number of iconic (minimized) windows in the status bar.
227 Enable by setting to 1.
229 Border color of the currently focused window. Default is red.
230 .It Ic color_focus_maximized
231 Border color of the currently focused, maximized window. Defaults to the
232 value of color_focus.
234 Border color of unfocused windows, default is rgb:88/88/88.
235 .It Ic color_unfocus_maximized
236 Border color of unfocused, maximized windows. Defaults to the value of
239 Some applications have dialogue windows that are too small to be useful.
240 This ratio is the screen size to what they will be resized.
241 For example, 0.6 is 60% of the physical screen size.
242 .It Ic disable_border
243 Remove border when bar is disabled and there is only one window on the
246 Window to put focus when the focused window is closed.
256 are relative to the window that is closed.
257 .It Ic focus_close_wrap
258 Whether to allow the focus to jump to the last window when the first window
259 is closed or vice versa. Disable by setting to 0.
261 Window to put focus when no window has been focused. Possible values are
267 Window focus behavior with respect to the mouse cursor. Possible values:
269 .Bl -tag -width "default" -offset indent -compact
271 Set window focus on border crossings caused by cursor motion and
274 Set window focus on all cursor border crossings, including workspace switches
275 and changes to layout.
277 Set window focus on window interaction only.
279 .It Ic java_workaround
280 Workaround a Java GUI rendering issue on non-reparenting window managers by
281 impersonating LG3D window manager, written by Sun. Default is 1.
282 .It Ic keyboard_mapping
283 Clear all key bindings and load new key bindings from the specified file.
284 This allows you to load pre-defined key bindings for your keyboard layout.
286 .Sx KEYBOARD MAPPING FILES
287 section below for a list of keyboard mapping files that have been provided
288 for several keyboard layouts.
290 Select layout to use at start-of-day. Defined in the format
291 ws[idx]:master_grow:master_add:stack_inc:layout:always_raise:stack_mode, e.g.
292 ws[2]:-4:0:1:0:horizontal sets worskspace 2 to the horizontal stack mode and
293 shrinks the master area by 4 ticks and adds one window to the stack, while
294 maintaining default floating window behavior.
295 Possible stack_mode values are
312 for more information.
313 Note that the stacking options are complicated and have side-effects. One
314 should familiarize oneself with these commands before experimenting with the
318 This setting is not retained at restart.
321 Mod1 is generally the ALT key and Mod4 is the windows key on a PC.
322 .It Ic name Ns Bq Ar n
323 Set name of workspace
326 .It Ic program Ns Bq Ar p
327 Define new action to spawn a program
332 .It Ic quirk Ns Bq Ar c:i:n
333 Add "quirk" for windows with class
343 Allocates a custom region, removing any autodetected regions which occupy the
344 same space on the screen.
345 Defined in the format screen[<idx>]:WIDTHxHEIGHT+X+Y,
346 e.g.\& screen[1]:800x1200+0+0.
348 To make a region span multiple monitors, create a region big enough to cover
349 them all, e.g. screen[1]:2048x768+0+0 makes the region span two monitors with
350 1024x768 resolution sitting one next to the other.
351 .It Ic region_padding
352 Pixel width of empty space within region borders.
353 Disable by setting to 0.
354 .It Ic spawn_position
355 Position in stack to place newly spawned windows.
366 are relative to the focused window.
368 Enable or disable displaying the current stacking algorithm in the status
371 Set a preferred minimum width for the terminal.
372 If this value is greater than 0,
374 will attempt to adjust the font sizes in the terminal to keep the terminal
375 width above this number as the window is resized.
378 is currently supported.
381 binary must not be setuid or setgid, which it is by default on most systems.
382 Users may need to set program[term] (see the
384 section) to use an alternate copy of the
386 binary without the setgid bit set.
388 Pixel width of empty space between tiled windows. Negative values cause overlap.
389 Set this to the opposite of border_width to collapse the border between tiles.
390 Disable by setting to 0.
391 .It Ic urgent_enabled
392 Enable or disable the urgency hint indicator in the status bar.
393 Note that many terminal emulators require an explicit setting for the bell
394 character to trigger urgency on the window. In xterm, for example, one needs to
395 add the following line to
397 .Bd -literal -offset indent
398 xterm.bellIsUrgent: true
400 .It Ic verbose_layout
401 Enable or disable displaying the current master window count and stack column/row
402 count in the status bar.
403 Enable by setting to 1.
410 for more information.
411 .It Ic window_class_enabled
412 Enable or disable displaying the window class name (from WM_CLASS) in the
413 status bar. Enable by setting to 1.
414 .It Ic window_instance_enabled
415 Enable or disable displaying the window instance name (from WM_CLASS) in the
416 status bar. Enable by setting to 1.
417 .It Ic window_name_enabled
418 Enable or disable displaying the window display name (from _NET_WM_NAME/WM_NAME)
419 in the status bar. Enable by setting to 1.
421 To prevent excessively large window names from pushing the remaining text off
422 the bar, it's limited to 64 characters, by default.
425 option for more details.
426 .It Ic workspace_limit
427 Set the total number of workspaces available. Minimum is 1, maximum is 22,
432 allows you to define custom actions to launch programs of your choice and
433 then bind them the same as with built-in actions.
438 Custom programs in the configuration file are specified as follows:
440 .Dl program[<action>] = <progpath> [<arg> [... <arg>]]
443 is any identifier that does not conflict with a built-in action or keyword,
445 is the desired program, and
447 is zero or more arguments to the program.
449 Remember that when using # in your program call, it must be escaped with a
452 The following argument variables will be substituted for values at the time the program
455 .Bl -tag -width "$bar_font_color" -offset indent -compact
459 .It Cm $bar_font_color
461 .It Cm $color_unfocus
463 -b if bar_at_bottom is enabled.
465 .It Cm $workspace_index
469 .Bd -literal -offset indent
470 program[ff] = /usr/local/bin/firefox http://spectrwm.org/
471 bind[ff] = Mod+Shift+b # Now M-S-b launches firefox
474 To cancel the previous, unbind it:
475 .Bd -literal -offset indent
480 .Bl -tag -width "screenshot_wind" -offset indent -compact
484 dmenu_run $dmenu_bottom \-fn $bar_font \-nb $bar_color \-nf $bar_font_color \-sb
485 $bar_border \-sf $bar_color
489 initscreen.sh # optional
490 .It Cm screenshot_all
491 screenshot.sh full # optional
492 .It Cm screenshot_wind
493 screenshot.sh window # optional
496 Note that optional default programs will not be validated unless overridden.
497 If a default program fails validation, you can resolve the exception
498 by installing the program, modifying the program call or disabling the program
499 by freeing the respective key binding.
501 For example, to override
503 .Bd -literal -offset indent
504 program[lock] = xscreensaver-command --lock
509 and prevent it from being validated:
510 .Bd -literal -offset indent
511 bind[] = MOD+Shift+Delete
515 provides many functions (or actions) accessed via key or mouse bindings.
517 The current mouse bindings are described below:
519 .Bl -tag -width "M-j, M-<TAB>XXX" -offset indent -compact
527 Resize window while maintaining it centered
530 The default key bindings are described below:
532 .Bl -tag -width "M-j, M-<TAB>XXXXXX" -offset indent -compact
533 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Return
541 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Space
543 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm \e
545 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Space
559 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Return
568 .Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm TAB
587 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Ar 1-9,0,F1-F12
589 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Ar 1-9,0,F1-F12
590 .Pf mvws_ Ns Aq Ar 1-22
591 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Ar Keypad 1-9
593 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Ar Keypad 1-9
595 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Right
597 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Left
599 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Up
601 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Down
605 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Left
607 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Up
609 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Right
611 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Left
621 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Delete
657 The action names and descriptions are listed below:
659 .Bl -tag -width "M-j, M-<TAB>XXXX" -offset indent -compact
679 Swap the master and stacking areas.
687 Add windows to master area.
689 Remove windows from master area.
691 Add columns/rows to stacking area.
693 Remove columns/rows from stacking area.
695 Move current window to master area.
697 Focus next window in workspace.
699 Focus previous window in workspace.
701 Focus on main window in workspace.
703 Focus on next window with the urgency hint flag set. The workspace is switched if needed.
705 Swap with next window in workspace.
707 Swap with previous window in workspace.
709 Toggle overall visibility of status bars.
711 Toggle status bar on current workspace.
713 Delete current window in workspace.
715 Destroy current window in workspace.
721 is 1 through workspace_limit.
723 Move current window to workspace
727 is 1 through workspace_limit.
735 Move current window to region
741 Switch to next workspace with a window in it.
743 Switch to previous workspace with a window in it.
745 Switch to next workspace.
747 Switch to previous workspace.
749 Switch to next workspace with the current window.
751 Switch to previous workspace with the current window.
753 Switch to last visited workspace.
755 Switch to next region.
757 Switch to previous region.
758 .It Cm screenshot_all
759 Take screenshot of entire screen (if enabled)
763 .It Cm screenshot_wind
764 Take screenshot of selected window (if enabled)
769 Toggle version in status bar.
771 Toggle focused window between tiled and floating.
778 Reinitialize physical screens
783 Minimize (unmap) currently focused window.
785 Restore (map) window returned by dmenu selection.
786 .It Cm maximize_toggle
787 Toggle maximization of focused window.
789 When set tiled windows are allowed to obscure floating windows.
791 Fake a middle mouse button click (mouse button 2).
793 Shrink the width of a floating window.
795 Grow the width of a floating window.
797 Shrink the height of a floating window.
799 Grow the height of a floating window.
801 Move a floating window a step to the left.
803 Move a floating window a step to the right.
805 Move a floating window a step upwards.
807 Move a floating window a step downwards.
808 .It Cm name_workspace
809 Name the current workspace.
810 .It Cm search_workspace
811 Search for a workspace.
813 Search the windows in the current workspace.
816 Custom bindings in the configuration file are specified as follows:
818 .Dl bind[<action>] = <keys>
821 is one of the actions listed above (or empty to unbind) and
823 is in the form of zero or more modifier keys
824 (MOD, Mod1, Shift, etc.) and one or more normal keys
825 (b, space, etc.), separated by "+".
828 .Bd -literal -offset indent
829 bind[reset] = Mod4+q # bind Windows-key + q to reset
830 bind[] = Mod1+q # unbind Alt + q
833 To use the currently defined
835 specify MOD as the modifier key.
837 Multiple key combinations may be bound to the same action.
839 To bind non-latin characters such as å or π you must enter the xkb
840 character name instead of the character itself. Run xev, focus the window
841 and press the specific key and in the terminal output read the symbol name.
842 In the fallowing example for å:
843 .Bd -literal -offset indent
844 KeyPress event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x2600001,
845 root 0x15a, subw 0x0, time 106213808, (11,5), root:(359,823),
846 state 0x0, keycode 24 (keysym 0xe5, aring), same_screen YES,
847 XLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c3 a5) "Ã¥"
848 XmbLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c3 a5) "Ã¥"
849 XFilterEvent returns: False
852 The xkb name is aring. In other words, in .spectrwm.conf add:
853 .Bd -literal -offset indent
854 bind[program] = MOD+aring
856 .Sh KEYBOARD MAPPING FILES
857 Keyboard mapping files for several keyboard layouts are listed
859 These files can be used with the
861 setting to load pre-defined key bindings for the specified
864 .Bl -tag -width "spectrwm_XX.confXXX" -offset indent -compact
865 .It Cm spectrwm_cz.conf
866 Czech Republic keyboard layout
867 .It Cm spectrwm_es.conf
868 Spanish keyboard layout
869 .It Cm spectrwm_fr.conf
870 French keyboard layout
871 .It Cm spectrwm_fr_ch.conf
872 Swiss French keyboard layout
873 .It Cm spectrwm_se.conf
874 Swedish keyboard layout
875 .It Cm spectrwm_us.conf
876 United States keyboard layout
880 provides "quirks" which handle windows that must be treated specially
881 in a tiling window manager, such as some dialogs and fullscreen apps.
883 The default quirks are described below:
885 .Bl -tag -width "OpenOffice.org N.M:VCLSalFrame<TAB>XXX" -offset indent \
887 .It Firefox\-bin:firefox\-bin
894 FLOAT + FULLSCREEN + FOCUSPREV
895 .It OpenOffice.org 2.4:VCLSalFrame
897 .It OpenOffice.org 3.1:VCLSalFrame
905 .It xine:xine Video Fullscreen Window
915 The quirks themselves are described below:
917 .Bl -tag -width "XTERM_FONTADJ<TAB>XXX" -offset indent -compact
919 This window should not be tiled, but allowed to float freely.
921 Adjusts size on transient windows that are too small using dialog_ratio
923 .Sx CONFIGURATION FILES ) .
925 Allow window to position itself, uncentered.
927 Adjust xterm fonts when resizing.
929 Remove border to allow window to use full region size.
931 On exit force focus on previously focused application not previous
932 application in the stack.
934 Don't change focus to the window when it first appears on the screen.
938 .It FOCUSONMAP_SINGLE
939 When the window first appears on the screen, change focus to the window
940 if there are no other windows on the workspace with the same WM_CLASS
941 class/instance value. Has no effect when
945 When an application requests focus on the window via a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW
946 client message (source indication of 1), comply with the request.
947 Note that a source indication of 0 (unspecified) or 2 (pager) are always
951 Custom quirks in the configuration file are specified as follows:
953 .Dl quirk[<class>[:<instance>[:<name>]]] = <quirk> [ + <quirk> ... ]
959 (optional) are patterns used to determine which window(s) the quirk(s) apply
962 is one of the quirks from the list above.
964 Note that patterns are interpreted as POSIX Extended Regular Expressions.
965 Any ':', '[' or ']' must be escaped with '\\'.
968 for more information on POSIX Extended Regular Expressions.
971 .Bd -literal -offset indent
972 quirk[MPlayer] = FLOAT + FULLSCREEN + FOCUSPREV # Float all windows having a \
974 quirk[.*] = FLOAT # Float all windows by default.
975 quirk[.*:.*:.*] = FLOAT # Same as above.
976 quirk[Firefox:Navigator] = FLOAT # Float all Firefox browser windows.
977 quirk[::Console] = FLOAT # Float windows with WM_CLASS not set and a \
978 window name of 'Console'.
979 quirk[\\[0-9\\].*:.*:\\[\\[\\:alnum\\:\\]\\]*] = FLOAT # Float windows with WM_CLASS \
980 class beginning with a number, any WM_CLASS instance and a \
981 _NET_WM_NAME/WM_NAME either blank or containing alphanumeric characters without spaces.
982 quirk[pcb:pcb] = NONE # remove existing quirk
992 and then clicking on the desired window.
993 In the following example the main window of Firefox was clicked:
994 .Bd -literal -offset indent
995 $ xprop | grep -E "^(WM_CLASS|_NET_WM_NAME|WM_NAME)"
996 WM_CLASS(STRING) = "Navigator", "Firefox"
997 WM_NAME(STRING) = "spectrwm - ConformalOpenSource"
998 _NET_WM_NAME(UTF8_STRING) = "spectrwm - ConformalOpenSource"
1003 displays WM_CLASS as:
1004 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1005 WM_CLASS(STRING) = "<instance>", "<class>"
1007 In the example above the quirk entry would be:
1008 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1009 quirk[Firefox:Navigator] = FLOAT
1013 also automatically assigns quirks to windows based on the value
1014 of the window's _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE property as follows:
1016 .Bl -tag -width "_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_TOOLBAR<TAB>XXX" -offset indent -compact
1017 .It _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK
1019 .It _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_TOOLBAR
1021 .It _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_UTILITY
1023 .It _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_SPLASH
1025 .It _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DIALOG
1029 In all other cases, no automatic quirks are assigned to the window.
1030 Quirks specified in the configuration file override the automatic quirks.
1033 partially implements the Extended Window Manager Hints (EWMH) specification.
1034 This enables controlling windows as well as
1036 itself from external scripts and programs.
1039 responding to certain ClientMessage events.
1040 From the terminal these events
1041 can be conveniently sent using tools such as
1046 actual format of these ClientMessage events, see the EWMH specification.
1048 The id of the currently focused window is stored in the _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW
1049 property of the root window.
1050 This can be used for example to retrieve the
1051 title of the currently active window with
1055 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1056 $ WINDOWID=`xprop \-root _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW | grep \-o "0x.*"`
1057 $ xprop \-id $WINDOWID _NET_WM_NAME | grep \-o "\\".*\\""
1060 A window can be focused by sending a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW client message
1065 (assuming 0x4a0000b is the id of the window to be focused):
1066 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1067 $ wmctrl \-i \-a 0x4a0000b
1070 Windows can be closed by sending a _NET_CLOSE_WINDOW client message
1075 (assuming 0x4a0000b is the id of the window to be closed):
1076 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1077 $ wmctrl \-i \-c 0x4a0000b
1080 Windows can be floated and un-floated by adding or removing the
1081 _NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE atom from the _NET_WM_STATE property of the window.
1082 This can be achieved by sending a _NET_WM_STATE client message to the
1084 For example, the following toggles the floating state of
1087 to send the message (assuming 0x4a0000b is the id of the window floated
1089 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1090 $ wmctrl \-i \-r 0x4a0000b \-b toggle,_NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE
1093 Windows can also be iconified and un-iconified by substituting
1094 _NET_WM_STATE_HIDDEN for _NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE in the previous example:
1095 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1096 $ wmctrl \-i \-r 0x4a0000b \-b toggle,_NET_WM_STATE_HIDDEN
1099 Floating windows can also be resized and moved by sending a
1100 _NET_MOVERESIZE_WINDOW client message to the root window.
1104 to send the message (assuming 0x4a0000b is the id of
1105 the window to be resize/moved):
1106 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1107 $ wmctrl \-i \-r 0x4a0000b \-e 0,100,50,640,480
1110 This moves the window to (100,50) and resizes it to 640x480.
1112 Any _NET_MOVERESIZE_WINDOW events received for stacked windows are ignored.
1116 a HUP signal will restart it.
1118 .Bl -tag -width "/etc/spectrwm.confXXX" -compact
1119 .It Pa ~/.spectrwm.conf
1121 user specific settings.
1122 .It Pa /etc/spectrwm.conf
1128 was inspired by xmonad & dwm.
1134 .Bl -tag -width "Ryan Thomas McBride Aq mcbride@countersiege.com " -offset \
1136 .It Cm Marco Peereboom Aq marco@peereboom.us
1137 .It Cm Ryan Thomas McBride Aq mcbride@countersiege.com
1138 .It Cm Darrin Chandler Aq dwchandler@stilyagin.com
1139 .It Cm Pierre-Yves Ritschard Aq pyr@spootnik.org
1140 .It Cm Tuukka Kataja Aq stuge@xor.fi
1141 .It Cm Jason L. Wright Aq jason@thought.net
1142 .It Cm Reginald Kennedy Aq rk@rejii.com
1143 .It Cm Lawrence Teo Aq lteo@lteo.net
1144 .It Cm Tiago Cunha Aq tcunha@gmx.com
1145 .It Cm David Hill Aq dhill@mindcry.org