bspwm/README.mkd
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![logo](https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm/raw/master/resources/bspwm_logo.png)
## Description
- Windows are represented as the leaves of a binary tree.
- To each leaf corresponds exactly one window.
- The only nodes which can be focused are the leaves.
- The leaves are called *window nodes*.
- The other nodes are called *container nodes*.
- Each container node is a split rectangle.
- Only two methods of node insertion will be provided: *replace* and *pair*.
Example: insertion of a new node (number 4) into the given tree with the
*replace* method:
b c
/ \ / \
3 a --> 4 b
^ / \ ^ / \
2 1 3 a
/ \
2 1
+-------------------------+ +-------------------------+
| | | | | |
| | 2 | | | 3 |
| | | | | |
| 3 |------------| --> | 4 |------------|
| ^ | | | ^ | | |
| | 1 | | | 2 | 1 |
| | | | | | |
+-------------------------+ +-------------------------+
And with the *pair* method:
b b
/ \ / \
3 a --> c a
^ / \ / \ / \
2 1 4 3 2 1
^
+-------------------------+ +-------------------------+
| | | | | |
| | 2 | | 4 | 2 |
| | | | ^ | |
| 3 |------------| --> |------------|------------|
| ^ | | | | |
| | 1 | | 3 | 1 |
| | | | | |
+-------------------------+ +-------------------------+
## Features
- Triple window borders. Rationale: with single borders, it might happen that the color of the window border is too close to the color of its inner or outer environment to be visible.
- Directional *pair* splitting preselection (the feedback will be drawn in the window border pixman).
- Set or get settings and call methods at runtime.
- Configuration file in Lua.
## Planned Features
- Don't automatically give the focus to toolbar windows.
- When a fullscreen window looses the focus, its fullscreen state will be set to *false* if the window to be focused is in the same desktop.
- Close every window except the focused one.
- Tree transformations: directional leaf swap, node pulling, rotation...
- Rounded corners ? (cairo).