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spectrwm
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spectrwm is a small dynamic tiling and reparenting window manager for X11. It
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tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used
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for much more important stuff. It has sane defaults and does not require one to
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learn a language to do any configuration. It is written by hackers for hackers
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and it strives to be small, compact and fast.
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It was largely inspired by [xmonad](http://xmonad.org xmonad) and
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[dwm](http://dwm.suckless.org). Both are fine products but suffer from things
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like: crazy-unportable-language-syndrome, silly defaults, asymmetrical window
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layout, "how hard can it be?" and good old NIH. Nevertheless
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[dwm](http://dwm.suckless.org) was a phenomenal resource and many good ideas
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and code was borrowed from it. On the other hand [xmonad](http://xmonad.org)
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has great defaults, key bindings and xinerama support but is crippled by not
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being written in C.
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spectrwm is a beautiful pearl! 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. The path of agony is too long to quote and in
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classical [OpenBSD](http://www.openbsd.org) fashion (put up, or hack up) a
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brand new window manager was whooped up to serve no other purpose than to obey
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its masters. It is released under the ISC license. Patches can be accepted
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provided they are ISC licensed as well.
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You can and come chat with us on IRC. We use [OFTC](https://www.oftc.net)
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channel #spectrwm.
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## Major features
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* Dynamic RandR support (multi-head)
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* Navigation anywhere on all screens with either the keyboard or mouse
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* Customizable status bar
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* Human readable configuration file
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* Restartable without losing state
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* Quick launch menu
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* Many screen layouts possible with a few simple key strokes
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* Windows can be added or removed from master area
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* Windows can be moved to any workspace or within a region
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* Resizable master area
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* Move/resize floating windows
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* Drag-to-float
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* Extended Window Manager Hints (EWMH) Support
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* Configureable tiling
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* Adjustable tile gap allows for a true one pixel border.
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* Customizable colors and border width.
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* User definable regions
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* User definable modkey & key bindings
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* User definable quirk bindings
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* User definable key bindings to launch applications
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* Multi OS support (*BSD, Linux, OSX, Windows/cygwin)
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* Reparenting window manager
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## License
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spectrwm is ISC licensed unless otherwise specified in individual files.
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## Screenshots
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![Vertical stack]
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(https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm/wiki/Scrotwm1.png)
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![Horizontal stack]
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(https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm/wiki/Scrotwm2.png)
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![Horizontal stack]
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(https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm/wiki/Scrotwm3.png)
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![Vertical stack with floater and extra window in master area]
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(https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm/wiki/Scrotwm4.png)
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![mplayer, resized and moved]
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(https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm/wiki/Scrotwm1.png)
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