2009-01-24 23:52:28 +00:00
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Welcome to Scrotwm's website.<p>
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Scrotwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.
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It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can
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be used for much more important stuff.
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It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do
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any configuration.
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It was written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be small, compact and
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fast.
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It was largely inspired by
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<a href="http://xmonad.org/">xmonad</a>
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and
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<a href="http://www.suckless.org/dwm/">dwm</a>.
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Both are fine products but suffer from things like:
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crazy-unportable-language-syndrome, silly defaults, asymmetrical window
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layout, "how hard can it be?" and good old NIH.
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Nevertheless dwm was a phenomenal resource and many good ideas and code
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was borrowed from it.
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On the other hand xmonad has great defaults, key bindings and xinerama
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support but is crippled by not being written in C.
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Scrotwm is a beautiful pearl!
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For it too, was created by grinding irritation.
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Nothing is a bigger waste of time than moving windows around until they are the
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right size-ish or having just about any relevant key combination being eaten
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for some task one never needs.
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The path of agony is too long to quote and in classical
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<a href="http://www.openbsd.org">OpenBSD</a>
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fashion (put up, or hack up) a brand new window manager was whooped up to serve
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no other purpose than to obey its masters.
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It was written by Marco Peereboom & Ryan Thomas McBride and it is released
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under the ISC
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<a href="license.html">license</a>.
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Patches can be accepted provided they are ISC licensed as well.<br>
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Following are a few screenshots of scrotwm in action.
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<center>
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<a href="scrotwm.jpg"><img border=0 src="scrotwm_small.jpg" alt="[scrotwm]"></a><br>
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Vertical stack.
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<a href="scrotwm2.jpg"><img border=0 src="scrotwm2_small.jpg" alt="[scrotwm2]"></a><br>
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Horizontal stack.
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<a href="scrotwm3.jpg"><img border=0 src="scrotwm3_small.jpg" alt="[scrotwm3]"></a><br>
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Horizontal stack with gvim & Firefox.
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</small>
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<body bgcolor="#101010" text="#ffffff"> <font face="monospace">
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To-do:<br>
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- add search for window function<br>
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- add identify window function<br>
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2009-01-28 04:57:32 +00:00
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- make alt-shift-arrows do nothing in single screen mode<br>
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<br>
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Known bugs:<br>
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- upon create sometimes new window does not gain focus<br>
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- upon destroy in multiscreen a window on the other screen gains focus<br>
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- switching between empty workspaces followed by alt-shift-arrows might lead to window with focus but not properly colored border<br>
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2009-01-24 23:52:28 +00:00
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Please read the
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<a href="man.html">man pages</a>
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for a more detailed explanation.
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<p>
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You can download the source via anoncvs at:<br>
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CVSROOT=anoncvs@code.freedaemon.com:/scrotwm<br>
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2009-01-29 22:36:20 +00:00
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Alternatively you can download periodic snapshots
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<a href="http://www.peereboom.us/scrotwm/snapshot">here</a>.<br>
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2009-01-24 23:52:28 +00:00
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Eventually there will be a link here to subscribe to CVS changes.
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<p>
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Copyright (c) 2009 Marco Peereboom <marco@peereboom.us> & Ryan
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Thomas McBride <mcbride@countersiege.com><br>
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$scrotwm$
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