be used for much more important stuff.
It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do
any configuration.
+It was written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be small, compact and
+fast.
<p>
It was largely inspired by
<a href="http://xmonad.org/">xmonad</a>
and
-<a href="http://www.suckless.org/dwm/">dwm</a>
-.
+<a href="http://www.suckless.org/dwm/">dwm</a>.
Both are fine products but suffer from things like:
crazy-unportable-language-syndrome, silly defaults, asymmetrical window
layout, "how hard can it be?" and good old NIH.
Nevertheless dwm was a phenomenal resource and many good ideas and code
-were borrowed from it.
+was borrowed from it.
On the other hand xmonad has great defaults, key bindings and xinerama
support but is crippled by not being written in C.
<p>
-<p>
-It was written by Marco Peereboom & Ryan Thomas McBride on
+Scrotwm is a beautiful pearl!
+For it too, was created by grinding irritation.
+Nothing is a bigger waste of time than moving windows around until they are the
+right size-ish or having just about any relevant key combination being eaten
+for some task one never needs.
+The path of agony is too long to quote and in classical
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org">OpenBSD</a>
-and it is release under the ISC
-<a href="license.html">license</a>.<br>
+fashion (put up, or hack up) a brand new window manager was whooped up to serve
+no other purpose than to obey its masters.
+It was written by Marco Peereboom & Ryan Thomas McBride and it is released
+under the ISC
+<a href="license.html">license</a>.
+Patches can be accepted provided they are ISC licensed as well.<br>
+<p>
+Following are a few screenshots of scrotwm in action.
+<center>
+<a href="scrotwm.jpg"><img border=0 src="scrotwm_small.jpg" alt="[scrotwm]"></a><br>
+Vertical stack.
+<p>
+<a href="scrotwm2.jpg"><img border=0 src="scrotwm2_small.jpg" alt="[scrotwm2]"></a><br>
+Horizontal stack.
+<p>
+<a href="scrotwm3.jpg"><img border=0 src="scrotwm3_small.jpg" alt="[scrotwm3]"></a><br>
+Horizontal stack with gvim & Firefox.
+</center>
<p>
</small>
-<body bgcolor="#000000" text="#ffffff"><font face="monospace">
+<body bgcolor="#101010" text="#ffffff"> <font face="monospace">
To-do:<br>
- click to focus<br>
-- multi monitor mode<br>
+- resize/float windows with mouse<br>
+- add search for window function<br>
+- add identify window function<br>
+- add while ;: whatever; done loop to status bar<br>
+- add switch physical screen keys<br>
</font></body>
<p>
<small>
Please read the
<a href="man.html">man pages</a>
-for a detailed explanation.
+for a more detailed explanation.
<p>
You can download the source via anoncvs at:<br>
CVSROOT=anoncvs@code.freedaemon.com:/scrotwm<br>
<p>
Eventually there will be a link here to subscribe to CVS changes.
<p>
-Copyright (c) 2008 Marco Peereboom <marco@peereboom.us> & Ryan
+Copyright (c) 2009 Marco Peereboom <marco@peereboom.us> & Ryan
Thomas McBride <mcbride@countersiege.com><br>
</html>
<p>
+<small>
$scrotwm$